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

Mon Nov 26 15:11:37 UTC 2012

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think the work that Adrian and a few others have done comes in handy
>
> Using DbPedia/Freebase to find works that enter the public domain.
>
> http://www.uebertext.org/2012/10/using-dbpedia-to-find-public-domain.html
>

The link is actually
http://www.uebertext.org/2012/10/querying-dbpedia-to-find-public-domain.html

Sam Leon also started a separate spreadsheet and there were a few replies
in the earlier thread on this list with potential sources.  The best
starting point I've seen isn't any fancy semantic database, but a basic
domain specific site:

http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/cgi-bin/year.pl?year=1942

Rather than having a bunch of different people start "volunteer your data"
efforts, it'd be good to see a single focused effort.

Tom

>
> Best,
>
> Joris
>
> 2012/11/25 Primavera De Filippi <primavera.defilippi at okfn.org>
>
>> Please spread this around !
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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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