[pd-discuss] Entering the Public Domain in 2013

Thu Nov 8 14:44:37 UTC 2012

Hi all,

The Law & Technology Clinic at Haifa Center for Law & Technology, Law
Faculty, University of Haifa is celebrating the Public Domain Day for the
3rd time this year.
The students at the clinic (Sapir Matmon and Karin Alush) made a list based
on wiki and the "1942" pages (English & Hebrew)- attached.

Of course this list should be double checked for mistakes - but it is a
good start I think.

As for the differences between the Copyright duration - I suggest to add a
disclaimer like the one that was written by Communia (with the support of
OKF and others) at their Public Domain Day site
http://www.publicdomainday.org/disclaimer.

The US Copyright duration is complicated (I really don't know it very well
myself, I'm not an expert...).
You can see a table that I found  that explains about it:
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm - maybe it can help

Best,

Dalit Ken-Dror

Legal Supervisor of the Law & Technology Clinic
Haifa Center for Law & Technology
Faculty of Law, University of Haifa

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Adam Green <adam.green at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Editor of The Public Domain Review here - many thanks for your ideas and
> suggestions!
>
> Adrian and Philip: these are great starting points, we'll be sure to check
> them out.
>
> Peter: a very worthy concern! We'll be sure to double check the death
> dates as best we can.
>
> I was imagining the list to focus on those authors/artists whose works
> enter the "public domain" by virtue of them having died in 1942 (in the
> case of artists/writers) and as such will be Eurozone focused (and others
> with the 70 + years rule).
>
> Would be good to hear any suggestions regarding articles/documentation
> relating to the copyright extension situation in the US (and others
> countries) which we can also perhaps point to along with this list - to
> increase awareness of issues in the field, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam.
>
>
>
>
> On 31 October 2012 18:19, Peter B. Hirtle <pbh6 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>> I would be hesitant to rely on an uncredited web site with unsourced
>> information as a source for public domain information - especially when the
>> consequences in the US of making a mistake can be so dire.
>>
>> Name authority work, including the establishment of author death dates,
>> is one of the most difficult and expensive tasks undertaken by librarians.
>>  It requires careful research given the similarity of names.  It also
>> requires careful citation of the source of data - and even then mistakes
>> are common.  The difficulty is one of the reasons why some cataloging codes
>> dropped the requirement to include death dates in cataloging records unless
>> absolutely required to differentiate names.
>>
>> Karen Coyle has a nice post on some of the problems associated with doing
>> name authority work at
>> http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2007/09/name-authority-control-aka-name.html.
>>  Her examples focus on birth dates, but the same would hold true for death
>> dates.
>>
>>
>> Peter B. Hirtle, FSAA
>> Senior Policy Advisor
>> Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services
>> Cornell University Library
>> 2B53 Kroch Library
>> Ithaca, NY  14853
>> peter.hirtle at cornell.edu
>> t.  607.255-4033
>> f.  607.255-9524
>> http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/vivo/individual23436
>> Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S.
>> Libraries, Archives, and Museums:
>> http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
>> pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Philip Harper
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:00 PM
>> To: Public Domain discuss list
>> Subject: Re: [pd-discuss] Entering the Public Domain in 2013
>>
>> Dear Sam, Jonathan et al,
>>
>> In your message dated Mon, 29 Oct 2012, you wrote:
>> >    Like most years we want to get together a list of interesting
>> >    figures whose work will be entering the public domain next year
>> >    (2013).
>>
>> I think, at least for authors, your query is best fulfilled by the pages
>> indexed here:
>>    http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/abyod/abyod.htm
>>
>> Or you can use the second section of:
>>    http://www.authorandbookinfo.com
>> to get the same information in a different way, and with the option to
>> specify the sex of the authors returned, and to omit the older authors
>> whose dates of death are not in the database (yet).
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Phil Harper
>>
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