In an ideal world we could have a very conservative cut-off point and
explicitly mark all things before this date as PD.
If only we had a complete set of these:
http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators
Maybe one day!
In any case, if there were willingness from to do this at KB, it would be a
shame not to PD mark much of this material because of uncertainty
surrounding a few possible edge cases.
J.
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>wrote;wrote:
On 1 November 2012 13:46, Jonathan Gray
<jonathan.gray(a)okfn.org> wrote:
Great - thanks Ole!
So - from the point of view of prospective reusers - does this mean that
e-books from DOD can be freely circulated and reused (as per
opendefinition.org)? E.g. will scanned e-books or digital editions be
made
available with a legal waiver (Public Domain Mark
/ CC0) or equivalent
"no
rights reserved" legal disclaimers?
Is this a little risky? I'm all for making definitely-PD material
available, but I would assume that a good proportion of late-19th
century material is potentially still in copyright - the traditional
"safe" cutoff date is around 1870.
Unless it checks on a case-by-case basis, the KB would be tagging
material that is likely to still be in copyright, and while it's
probably safe for them to make it available, I don't know if we should
be encouraging using PD marks for possibly unfree material.
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