Dear Chris, That's fantastic, thanks so much! Regarding getting these works digitised it would definitely be worth thinking about some kind of specific co-ordinated effort on this - perhaps involving Wikimedia and/or Project Gutenberg? A focused yearly drive for those works going into public domain in jurisdictions with the 70 years and plus rule. Often its only pre-1923 works which have been done (as already in the public domain in the U.S).
All the best, Adam. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Sakkas <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:52 AM Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Entering the Public Domain in 2013 To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <[email protected]> Hi folks, I went through the list of writers who died in 1942 on Wikipedia and added everyone that I think of as noteworthy (priority given to people who wrote in English, people who were influential, people whose books are uploaded onto the Internet Archive, people whose books had their own Wikipedia pages). By all means add whoever else you like, but those are the criteria that I used. It would be great to get some more of these books digitised, OCRed and onto Project Gutenberg - or circulated more widely. Let me know if you have any ideas on that front. Cheers, *Chris Sakkas **Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the Living Libre blog <http://www.livinglibre.com> and Twitter feed<https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre> .* On 29 October 2012 21:05, Sam Leon <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Like most years we want to get together a list of interesting figures > whose work will be entering the public domain next year (2013). > > I've booted a > spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdHJxTFNGSk0wWEdnY2FrMXNmSXlmU2c#gid=0> > [1] > which we can all begin populating with the authors whose published works > will enter the public domain in the UK in 2013 (*70 years after the death > of author*). > > We plan to feature this list on the Public Domain > Review<http://publicdomainreview.org/> and > use it as a point of reference for the collections and articles we get in > 2013. > > All the best, > Sam > > [1] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdHJxTFNGSk0wWEdnY2FrMXNmSXlmU2c#gid=0 > > -- > Sam Leon > Community Coordinator > Open Knowledge Foundation > http://okfn.org/ > Skype: samedleon > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss/sanglorian%40gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss -- Jonathan Gray <http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg <http://twitter.com/jwyg> The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> | @okfn<http://twitter.com/okfn> Support our work: okfn.org/support -- Adam Green Editor, The Public Domain Review http://publicdomainreview.org/ The Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/
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