Based on our amateur legal analysis at [[Commons:Deletion requests/Library and Archives Canada non-PD images]], there is a potentially large class of images which are PD in Canada, but not the US: those works whose copyright was initially held by corporations (or the Crown), which expire 50 years after publication, but only after 95 years in the US due to the URAA. <br>
<br>In the past, there had been an idea that the Canadian chapter, once it was formed, could host a collection of such materials for the intervening 45 years, to provide these PD materials to Canadian re-users, and to allow for efficient transferring to Wikimedia Commons once the PD date comes. When I floated this idea on the WMC list, someone suggested that the Foundation would be actually be interested in doing this itself. <br>
<br>Thus, I have a few questions:<br><br>1. Will the Foundation ever be interested in hosting works which are non-PD in the US, but are PD elsewhere?<br>2. Have any national chapters thought of doing this for their own country's PD works?<br>
3. If Wikimedia Canada can't make this a priority right now (we are pretty busy with incorporation, etc), would anyone out there (presumably Commons users) be interested in contributing to a non-WMF, completely unofficial wiki of Canadian PD works? Or should I just stick to working by myself and hosting any of these I find on my Flickr account?<br>
4. Alternately, would anyone object to my starting of such a private wiki on the grounds that it would be better to wait for this to become an official WMC or WMF project?<br><br>Thanks for any input.<br>Padraic<br>-- <br>
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