[pd-discuss] Entering the Public Domain in 2013

Wed Oct 31 19:07:11 UTC 2012

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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