I think we should avoid publicly celebrating that someone's murder 70 years ago means that their work is now out of copyright.
Trotsky is an obvious if somewhat ironic example (if property is theft, intellectual property is ?) WereSpielChequers On 17 December 2010 14:24, Roger Bamkin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
