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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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