On 4/6/07, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there anything in particular that your comrades in the USA could help you out with? I'm happy to help. Ringo Kamens
Thanks Ringo! Well, Public Domain Burn is always in need of people to help out... especially any Python developers that might be lurking around here... :) Essentially, we're trying to build a registry of musical works, sound recordings and composers, and then to programmatically determine which are in the public domain, in order to digitize them and make them available on Archive.org. It'd also be really interesting to give this more of an international slant, IMO - due to the discrepancy between term of copyright for Sound Recordings between the UK and the US it'd make our system slightly more complicated, but the confusion borne out of this discrepancy is precisely the sort of situation we're hoping to alleviate with this project. It'd also be nice to get hold of works meatadata from the Library of Congress, somehow... :) The project homepage is at http://www.publicdomainworks.net/ Aside from that, I think it would generally be good to foster more links between FC-US and FC-UK - perhaps with a few joint projects (the WIPO world intellectual property day suggestion that was posted up here earlier in the week might be a good candidate for this?). I also seem to remember a suggestion being floated on the iCommons list a while ago concerning the setting up of some sort of network of contacts for free/CC musicians looking to tour in other countries who might need assistance with organising gigs / floors to sleep on, etc. It might be a good idea to see if we could begin working on something like this - if any US-based Free / CC artists ever want to come over here, they'd be most welcome! Cheers, Tim
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