Hi Geni & all, When WMUK's promoted public domain day in the past, we've run into problems with explaining what this actually means for Wikimedia - since all of the projects follow US copyright law, nothing seems to change in terms of what content the Wikimedia projects can host and/or reuse. The only change that this seems to make is that UK residents can legally upload content that's also outside of US copyright law, rather than risking infringing UK copyright by doing so - which is a considerably harder point to get across to people.
I guess we could say "yay, the content's now public domain in the UK - please could the US change its laws so that it's also public domain in the US so we can use it on Wikimedia", but I'm not sure that the news would reach the right audiences to say that... Any ideas? Thanks, Mike On 31 Oct 2011, at 12:37, geni wrote: > Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in > the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and > suchlike. > > My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly > focused on the your paintings thing but I hope to expand it a bit > before the new year: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1941_deaths > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > 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
