2009/12/21 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: > 2009/12/21 geni <[email protected]>: >> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works >> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the >> only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it: >> >> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920 >> >> The most interesting name I'm aware of this year is Howard Carter who >> created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological >> artifacts. I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if >> it was something a press release could be built around? > > Sigmund Freud and W. B. Yeats are the two particularly influential > authors this year, I believe - neither UK, but both life+70 > jurisdictions. > > Arthur Rackham, Havelock Ellis and Ford Madox Ford are both > interesting, though neither is particularly well-known now. >
I've been putting together a list at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1939_deaths The ones with stars are the ones I think are most likely to be of interest to us. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
