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

Fri Nov 30 11:45:40 UTC 2012

It really depends on what you're asking for - Canada specifically?

There is no one "public domain"; there are several, and material that
is PD in one country may not be PD in others. Film is a particuarly
complex thing to determine the copyright of, as well, compared to nice
simple books with a single author and a single creative element!

There's a list of public domain *in the US* films here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States

I don't know of one for any other jurisdiction.

- Andrew.

On 29 November 2012 13:59, jimie bowers <jimiebowers at hotmail.ca> wrote:
> Is there a place or site I can go to now, there must be a reliable source
> for PD movies, or a book, or something, I need for someone to direct me to a
> good source
>
> ________________________________
> From: jimiebowers at hotmail.ca
> To: pd-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:27:59 -0500
>
> Subject: Re: [pd-discuss] Fwd: Public Domain Call for Arts
>
> I would like a list of PD movies, and a list of silent movies that are after
> 1923, and now in the PD, where can I find a good reliables source for
> Movies, TV and Radio
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:54:56 +0100
> From: primavera.defilippi at okfn.org
> To: pd-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [pd-discuss] Fwd: Public Domain Call for Arts
>
> 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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