> On 26 Dec 2010, at 21:07, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: >> Hello Mike, >> >> Do you plan to issue a press release this year too for the Public Domain Day? >> >> Do you plan any other initiative? >> >> We are trying, with some success, to celebrate the PD a bit louder >> this year: http://publicdomainday.org/ >> >> Thanks, >> best >> juan carlos
Mike Peel has answered on behalf of WMUK; but I was quite interested to learn about that website. I suppose any press release would be tied to a particular angle, but it seems in line with the general "free content" approach for the chapter at least to take an interest, whatever the specifics of the hosting of that content would be (which is where the complications of US public domain law really come in). In particular http://publicdomainday.org/ is certainly worth mentioning in "Open Access", the WMUK newsletter: I'm the editor and am looking right now for stories for the January issue, which I would like to get out in the first week of January (before all the anniversary events). So I have set a copy date of 1 January. I already have the Magnus Manske prototype tool http://toolserver.org/~magnus/PDator.php that I could talk about. (Magnus is out of the UK right now, but the idea is that the kind of list up at http://publicdomainday.org/node/37/ can be added to by more systematic use of Wikipedia through the toolserver.) I see from http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators that the OKF also has projects here. The situation seems ripe for someone to survey what is happening out there ... in other words in parallel with any media drive, the "open sector" should be getting its act together by sharing knowledge and trying not to duplicate effort too much. I could really go for an article that touched on these points. Anyone out there want to take a stab? Offlist communication to me about "Open Access" on [email protected], please. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
