[Foundation-l] Public Domain Mark - what does this mean for us?

[Mike Linksvayer]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>wrote:

> While reading the FAQ of Creative Commons about the new Public Domain
> Mark, I wondered what are the consequences for our projects. Will I
> use PDM in future anyhow on Commons, for example?
>

Hopefully the main consequence is that the PDM encourages more, and more
accurate, annotating of public domain works elsewhere on the web, which
means a bigger universe for Wikimedia projects to pull from (and into
Commons).

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_tags#Public_domain is currently
richer and works well as far as I can tell, so I wouldn't advocate for using
PDM directly on Commons. Maybe in the future, if PDM is wildly successful
(use, recognition by users and software, ...), as I hope it will be.

Mike

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