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

Wed Nov 28 09:54:56 UTC 2012

This would be great, the Communia Association has recently taken over the PDD
web site management from NEXA, so maybe this could be a good place to
consolidate all information from the various public domain days.
If you guys agree, I could set up a central database with all the info
collected from the various jurisdiction - what do you think ?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Paul Keller <pk at kl.nl> wrote:

> thanks for sharing this. In this context i was wondering if it would be
> useful to consolidate the information from the various public domain days
> in one single place (preferably a simple database that can be queried via a
> public API)…. /paul
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> On Monday, November 26, 2012 at 16:11 , Tom Morris wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org(mailto:
> 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 (mailto:
> primavera.defilippi at okfn.org)>
> > > > Please spread this around !
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > From: Amelia Andersdotter <amelia.andersdotter at piratpartiet.se(mailto:
> 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 (mailto:
> 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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