The "German focus" is no doubt partly down to better metadata in
Wikidata, but also ties into something I spotted years ago -
proportionally more notable people in dewiki died in 1945 than in
enwiki. http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2010/demographics-in-wikipedia/
Making the reasonable assumption
> On 31 December 2015 at 08:12 geni wrote:
>
>
> Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight
> can be found at:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain
>
> That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to
> issues w
Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight
can be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain
That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to issues
with US copyright laws.
--
geni
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Public domain day is coming up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day
Probably not that significant from our POV since the gap between 1923 and
1943 is large enough that quite a lot of stuff won't be PD in the US. There
are also some slightly unfortunate cases.
Sergei Rachmaninoff and Ge
On 31 October 2011 13:45, Andrew Gray wrote:
> The most prominent British writer to die in 1941 was Virginia Woolf,
> so no doubt we'll see a spate of reprints by about March. Others
> include Hugh Walpole (prolific but mostly forgotten), P. C. Wren
> ("Beau Geste"), A. G. Macdonell ("England, Th
On 31 October 2011 20:42, geni wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 19:25, Charles Matthews
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 31 October 2011 17:19, Tim Dobson wrote:
> >>
> >> Just added my great grandfather, Max Plowman ("A Subletern on the
> >> Somme") to the list. :D
> >>
> > Interesting - I started the artic
On 31 October 2011 19:25, Charles Matthews
wrote:
>
>
> On 31 October 2011 17:19, Tim Dobson wrote:
>>
>> Just added my great grandfather, Max Plowman ("A Subletern on the
>> Somme") to the list. :D
>>
> Interesting - I started the article about him in 2008. There was some spat
> over Plowman and
On 31 October 2011 17:19, Tim Dobson wrote:
>
>
> Just added my great grandfather, Max Plowman ("A Subletern on the
> Somme") to the list. :D
>
> Interesting - I started the article about him in 2008. There was some spat
over Plowman and Orwell's line on pacifism, so I've just looked at it and
the
On 31 October 2011 16:27, Deryck Chan wrote:
> I won't deliberately avoid using works whose copyright will expire next year
> due to the author dying in the war in 1941. That's a moral right, not
> copyright. Wikimedia shouldn't take sides on moral right issues.
I wouldn't avoid it but I might a
On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because
> we don't feel comfortable saying "Yay! This brilliant author got shot
> in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his
> books with paying for them!"? If
On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because
> we don't feel comfortable saying "Yay! This brilliant author got shot
> in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his
> books with paying for them!"? I
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On 31/10/11 13:45, Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1941_deaths
>
> The most prominent British writer to die in 1941 was Virginia Woolf,
> so no doubt we'll see a spate of reprints b
On 31 October 2011 16:27, Deryck Chan wrote:
> I won't deliberately avoid using works whose copyright will expire next year
> due to the author dying in the war in 1941. That's a moral right, not
> copyright. Wikimedia shouldn't take sides on moral right issues.
The language may be confusing here
I won't deliberately avoid using works whose copyright will expire next
year due to the author dying in the war in 1941. That's a moral right, not
copyright. Wikimedia shouldn't take sides on moral right issues.
On Oct 31, 2011 3:49 PM, "Thomas Dalton" wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 15:14, geni wro
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Charles Matthews
wrote:
>
>
> On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni wrote:
>>
>> Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in
>> the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and
>> suchlike.
>>
>> My list of works that go PD is a
On 31 October 2011 15:14, geni wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 12:59, Michael Peel wrote:
>> I guess we could say "yay, the content's now public domain in the UK -
>> please could the US change its laws so that it's also public >domain in the
>> US so we can use it on Wikimedia", but I'm not sure t
On 31 October 2011 12:59, Michael Peel wrote:
> I guess we could say "yay, the content's now public domain in the UK - please
> could the US change its laws so that it's also public >domain in the US so we
> can use it on Wikimedia", but I'm not sure that the news would reach the
> right audien
On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni wrote:
> Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in
> the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and
> suchlike.
>
> My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly
> focused on the your paintings thin
On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni wrote:
> Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in
> the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and
> suchlike.
>
> My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly
> focused on the your paintings thing
Hi Geni & all,
When WMUK's promoted public domain day in the past, we've run into problems
with explaining what this actually means for Wikimedia - since all of the
projects follow US copyright law, nothing seems to change in terms of what
content the Wikimedia projects can host and/or reuse. T
Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in
the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and
suchlike.
My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly
focused on the your paintings thing but I hope to expand it a bit
before the new year
Will do Juan. Nice to speak to you.
Happy New Year to you too and speak more in 2011!
Gem
On 31 December 2010 14:33, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Gem,
>
> Thanks for your message.
> Please let's keep in touch.
> If you know of any relevant initiative, just mention it to Bernardo (copy)
> - tha
Hi Gem,
Thanks for your message.
Please let's keep in touch.
If you know of any relevant initiative, just mention it to Bernardo
(copy) - thanks!
Happy New Year and Happy Public Domain Day!
juan carlos
On 31/12/10 15:28, Gemma Griffiths wrote:
Hi Juan,
Hope all is well.
At this stage, I'
Hi Juan,
Hope all is well.
At this stage, I'd say it is unlikely we will be issuing a release but we
will be looking to promote the contents in other ways. When we have more
details about this, we will let you know.
Any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Gem
On 27 Dece
> On 26 Dec 2010, at 21:07, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
>> Hello Mike,
>>
>> Do you plan to issue a press release this year too for the Public Domain Day?
>>
>> Do you plan any other initiative?
>>
>> We are trying, with some success, to celebrate the PD a bit louder
>> this year: http://publicdomainday
Hi Juan,
Thanks for getting in touch. We've been talking about whether we should put out
another press release this year, however last year we discovered that things
aren't quite as simple as we hoped with public domain day and Wikimedia. The
servers for Wikimedia sites are based in the US, whi
On 17/12/2010 12:13, David Gerard wrote:
> There's also gutenberg.org.au, for things that are PD under Australian
> law (all of Orwell, for example).
>
So what the WP list indicates is deaths before 1955, from the Australian
POV, had copyrights lapsing in or before 2005; and otherwise nothing
mor
On 17/12/2010 15:52, WereSpielChequers wrote:
> I think we should avoid publicly celebrating that someone's murder 70
> years ago means that their work is now out of copyright.
>
> Trotsky is an obvious if somewhat ironic example (if property is
> theft, intellectual property is ?)
It's more a ques
I think we should avoid publicly celebrating that someone's murder 70
years ago means that their work is now out of copyright.
Trotsky is an obvious if somewhat ironic example (if property is
theft, intellectual property is ?)
WereSpielChequers
On 17 December 2010 14:24, Roger Bamkin wrote:
> I
I will look at the list so far - they look very notable, but if there are
authors who have bios that need polishing before we tell the press (I think
this announcement is a good idea) then I would help. This is a good
opportunity to remind people that they can will their works into the public
domai
On 17 December 2010 11:57, Charles Matthews
wrote:
> And that actually all excludes the American public domain position,
> which (as we found in 2009) makes for a much more complicated story.
> Hosting by the WMF on Wikisource (say) must go by US law. But there is
> Wikilivres, which is across th
As many will know, last year on this list the idea came up of getting
media coverage for authors whose works will fall out of copyright in 2011.
WMUK is looking at the press release side of this in recent discussions.
But there is a bigger issue (as always with Wikimedia!), namely how to
resear
2009/12/22 Brian McNeil :
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:42 +, Andrew Turvey wrote:
>> Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're
>> getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of
>> story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well.
>>
>> When sh
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:42 +, Andrew Turvey wrote:
> Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're
> getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of
> story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well.
>
> When should it be put out? Given that 1
Brian McNeil wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 19:23 +, Charles Matthews wrote:
>
>> WMUK list CC Steve Virgin
>>
>> Charles Matthews wrote:
>>
>>> Brian McNeil wrote:
>>>
>>>
Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone?
>>> Have
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 19:23 +, Charles Matthews wrote:
> WMUK list CC Steve Virgin
>
> Charles Matthews wrote:
> > Brian McNeil wrote:
> >
> >> Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Have you seen the recent Doonesbury strand about celeb voices for
Loves Wikipedia?
Headline? Wikipedia looks forward to Public Domain Day?
- "Brian McNeil" wrote:
> From: "Brian McNeil"
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 17:12:14 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
> Portugal
> Subject:
2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :
> Draft, then.
>
> "What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of King Tut, author Zane
> Grey of the cowboy classic "Riders of the Purple Sage", and sexologist
> Havelock Ellis have in common? The answer is that they all died in 1939,
> meaning that on New Year's D
WMUK list CC Steve Virgin
Charles Matthews wrote:
> Brian McNeil wrote:
>
>> Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone?
>>
>>
>>
> Have you seen the recent Doonesbury strand about celeb voices for
> satnav? This one actually might have some legs.
>
So Stephen Fry is repre
Brian McNeil wrote:
> Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone?
>
>
Have you seen the recent Doonesbury strand about celeb voices for
satnav? This one actually might have some legs.
Charles
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On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:31 +, Charles Matthews wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :
> >
> >
> >> Draft, then.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas
> > movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford ma
David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :
>
>
>> Draft, then.
>>
>
>
> Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas
> movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well
> worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportun
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:08 +, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :
>
> > Draft, then.
>
>
> Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas
> movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well
> worth mentioning - people who read will c
2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :
> Draft, then.
Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas
movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well
worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportunity
to push his works. Send to the more liter
Draft, then.
"What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of King Tut, author Zane
Grey of the cowboy classic "Riders of the Purple Sage", and sexologist
Havelock Ellis have in common? The answer is that they all died in 1939,
meaning that on New Year's Day all their works are free from copyr
2009/12/21 Brian McNeil :
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:29 +, geni wrote:
>> 2009/12/21 Andrew Gray :
>> > 2009/12/21 geni :
>> >> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works
>> >> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the
>> >> only one to note
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:29 +, geni wrote:
> 2009/12/21 Andrew Gray :
> > 2009/12/21 geni :
> >> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works
> >> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the
> >> only one to note this creative commons apparently
2009/12/21 Andrew Gray :
> 2009/12/21 geni :
>> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works
>> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the
>> only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it:
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/e
2009/12/21 Isabell Long :
> Good idea, yeah I think it could be too, though what else could be put in it?
> I don't know who does the press releases here.
I forwarded Geni's message to the comcom list as well, but there's
nothing to stop WMUK - very much in line with the open content
education
2009/12/21 geni :
> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works
> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the
> only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920
>
> The most interest
Isabell Long wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:57:52AM +, geni wrote:
>
>> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works
>> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the
>> only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it:
>>
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Isabell Long wrote:
>> The most interesting name I'm aware of this year is Howard Carter who
>> created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological
>> artifacts.
>
> Oh, quite interesting then!
>
>> I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if
>> i
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:57:52AM +, geni wrote:
> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works
> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the
> only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it:
Wow, that's good! I didn't realis
January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works
of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the
only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920
The most interesting name I'm aware of this yea
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