I will look at the list so far - they look very notable, but if there are
authors who have bios that need polishing before we tell the press (I think
this announcement is a good idea) then I would help. This is a good
opportunity to remind people that they can will their works into the public
domain when they die.

regards
Roger

On 17 December 2010 12:13, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17 December 2010 11:57, Charles Matthews
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > And that actually all excludes the American public domain position,
> > which (as we found in 2009) makes for a much more complicated story.
> > Hosting by the WMF on Wikisource (say) must go by US law. But there is
> > Wikilivres, which is across the border in Canada. Any contacts there?
>
>
> Wikilivres is basically Yann Forget's personal project ([email protected],
> cc'd).
>
> There's also gutenberg.org.au, for things that are PD under Australian
> law (all of Orwell, for example).
>
>
> - d.
>
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