On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:29 +0000, geni wrote:
2009/12/21 Andrew Gray
<andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>uk>:
2009/12/21 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
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 year is Howard Carter who
created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological
artifacts. I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if
it was something a press release could be built around?
Sigmund Freud and W. B. Yeats are the two particularly influential
authors this year, I believe - neither UK, but both life+70
jurisdictions.
Arthur Rackham, Havelock Ellis and Ford Madox Ford are both
interesting, though neither is particularly well-known now.
I've been putting together a list at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1939_deaths
The ones with stars are the ones I think are most likely to be of
interest to us.
I didn't see any asterisked authors. That, I think, would be a good
target; adding more content to Wikibooks. Secondary to that, if WMUK has
any voice talent, or can entice notable figures to do readings, spoken
Wikibooks would be a good place to target stuff. Who could read Carter's
Journals? And the various other pieces now available? Is Yeats one that
UK celebs could be convinced to donate spoken versions of to the
Commons?
Would more be a wikisource thing. There is