I know buy nothing day is a while away still but it would be a good time to collaborate. I know BND is fairly large in the UK and freeculture groups could protest "copyright criminals" (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) at stores during the event. Just an idea but it's a cheap campaign that will bring publicity. Comrade Ringo Kamens
On 4/11/07, Tim Cowlishaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
