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.org/
>
> Thanks,
> best
> juan carlos
Mike Peel has answered on behalf of WMUK; but I was quite interested to
learn about that website. I suppose any press release would be tied to a
particular angle, but it seems in line with the general "free content"
approach for the chapter at least to take an interest, whatever the
specifics of the hosting of that content would be (which is where the
complications of US public domain law really come in).
In particular
http://publicdomainday.org/ is certainly worth mentioning
in "Open Access", the WMUK newsletter: I'm the editor and am looking
right now for stories for the January issue, which I would like to get
out in the first week of January (before all the anniversary events). So
I have set a copy date of 1 January. I already have the Magnus Manske
prototype tool
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/PDator.php
that I could talk about. (Magnus is out of the UK right now, but the idea is that the kind
of list up at
http://publicdomainday.org/node/37/ can be added to by more systematic use
of Wikipedia through the toolserver.) I see from
http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators
that the OKF also has projects here. The situation seems ripe for someone to survey what
is happening out there ... in other words in parallel with any media drive, the "open
sector" should be getting its act together by sharing knowledge and trying not to
duplicate effort too much.
I could really go for an article that touched on these points. Anyone out there want to
take a stab?
Offlist communication to me about "Open Access" on editor(a)wikimedia.org.uk,
please.
Charles