Interesting, I’d missed that the fact that a new consultation was started last week. We certainly should respond to this, and it would be great if you’re able to draft some notes. Michael On 7 November 2014 at 18:00:03, Andrew Gray (andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk) wrote: Hi all, The government is currently consulting on reducing the copyright term in some unpublished material - this is the "2039 problem" that a number of institutions have been raising in recent weeks, where unpublished works can be in copyright until 2039 despite being potentially several centuries old. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reducing-the-duration-of-copyri… This seems like something where WMUK should submit a response (we have a pretty clear interest in rationalising the regulations here). Deadline is a month away so we've got some time to think about it. I'm happy to draft up some notes for us to send in if no-one else is putting something together - have we been looking at this already? Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Thanks Andrew - that’s a good start. :-) I’ve added some of my suggested answers to some of the questions. I’ve cc’d commons-l who I’m sure will be able to suggest better answers that I can… Thanks, Mike