[pd-discuss] Fwd: Public Domain Call for Arts

Sun Nov 25 17:19:01 UTC 2012

Please spread this around !

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From: Amelia Andersdotter <amelia.andersdotter at piratpartiet.se>
Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Subject: [communia-associates] Public Domain Call for Arts
To: communia-associates at lists.communia-association.org

 Dear all,

Every year loads of European artistic works enter into the public domain,
that is, the copyright protection granted to the work expires and the
material becomes free for use (with or without attribution depending on
jurisdiction). In 2013 te works from all over Europe passing into the
public domain are works for which the author died in 1943 will enter into
the public domain, except in Spain where the author must have died in 1933.
Some examples of authors that entered into the public domain in 2011 in
most European countries can be found at
<http://publicdomainday.org/node/37/>
<http://publicdomainday.org/node/37/>and include Mikhail Bulgakov,
Selma Lagerlöf and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

We are investigating the opportunities of organising an event at the
European Parliament celebrating the new entrants into the public domain. To
do this, we must however first locate works from all the member states that
enter into the public domain. Preferably from many authors, musicians and
film makers. And we need your help!
If you know an author, musician, film-maker or other kind of creator whose
work will come into the public domain in 2013, please put their name and
some works in the comments. *Since every national copyright law has
unfortunately its own quirks, we would very much appreciated the help of
volunteer lawyers to make sure that the works that we will select are
indeed entering the public domain.* We will maintain an updated list of all
the works we accumulate in this blogpost:

http://ameliaandersdotter.eu/2012/11/25/public-domain-call-for-arts/

Please spread this message around as far as you can! Let's make it happen!

best regards,

Amelia

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