> 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 > To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" > <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <b4fde62a0805251125k39f58086id21947145c98b0f1(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 > -- > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Padraic > http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Padraic >