Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-06 Thread Hay (Husky)
@Jane: Yes, that's pretty much correct. The URAA is a pain in the *** if you know what i mean. For example, virtually all works by Theo van Doesburg are not usable on Commons because they're painted after 1923, even though in the Netherlands his works have been PD since 2002. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-03 Thread Jane Darnell
Romaine, I was wondering about the same thing as Yaroslav. As I have understood the URAA stuff up to now, I think a work by Kandinsky (died Dec 1944) is problematic but this one for example is OK (author died in 1943, but the work is dated before 1923): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ango

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 03.01.2014 15:03, Romaine Wiki wrote: hello all! January 1st was Public Domain Day [1] and after xx years of copyright, it expires on the first of January of the year after. As result hundreds of images were restored on Commons on the 1-1-2014, but many of them did not get a place in articles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-03 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Michael Maggs wrote: >On 3 Jan 2014, at 14:22, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> I find it a bit worrying that Commons makes little effort to distinguish >> between "copyright on this sculpture" and "copyright on this photograph >> of a sculpture". It would seem preferable if there was suitable meta >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Maggs
On 3 Jan 2014, at 14:22, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > I find it a bit worrying that Commons makes little effort to distinguish > between "copyright on this sculpture" and "copyright on this photograph > of a sculpture". It would seem preferable if there was suitable meta > data recording the rea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-03 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Romaine Wiki wrote: >January 1st was Public Domain Day [1] and after xx years of copyright, >it expires on the first of January of the year after. As result hundreds >of images were restored on Commons on the 1-1-2014, but many of them did >not get a place in articles on Wikipedia and her sist

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-03 Thread Michael Maggs
Nice. It would be good to add a link at the top to Category:Undeleted in 2014 as well, or even to transclude all images from that category. Michael On 3 Jan 2014, at 14:03, Romaine Wiki wrote: > hello all! > > January 1st was Public Domain Day [1] and after xx years of copyright, it > expir

[Wikimedia-l] Public Domain Day

2014-01-03 Thread Romaine Wiki
hello all! January 1st was Public Domain Day [1] and after xx years of copyright, it expires on the first of January of the year after. As result hundreds of images were restored on Commons on the 1-1-2014, but many of them did not get a place in articles on Wikipedia and her sister projects.