> Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 14:25:44 -0400
> From: Padraic <user.padraic(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Commons-l] PD in Canada, but not the US
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> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thus, I have a few questions:
>
> 1. Will the Foundation ever be interested in hosting works which are non-PD
> in the US, but are PD elsewhere?
> 2. Have any national chapters thought of doing this for their own country's
> PD works?
> 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?
> 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?
>
> Thanks for any input.
> Padraic
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