Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day tomorrow

> On 31 December 2015 at 08:12 geni wrote: > > > Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight > can be found at: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain > > That said this will have a fairly limited impact on

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day tomorrow

The "German focus" is no doubt partly down to better metadata in Wikidata, but also ties into something I spotted years ago - proportionally more notable people in dewiki died in 1945 than in enwiki. http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2010/demographics-in-wikipedia/ Making the reasonable

[Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day tomorrow

Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to issues with US copyright laws. -- geni