In an ideal world we could have a very conservative cut-off point and explicitly mark all things before this date as PD.<div><br></div><div>If only we had a complete set of these: <a href="http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators">http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe one day!</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>J.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Gray <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk" target="_blank">andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1 November 2012 13:46, Jonathan Gray &lt;<a href="mailto:jonathan.gray@okfn.org">jonathan.gray@okfn.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>

&gt; Great - thanks Ole!<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; So - from the point of view of prospective reusers - does this mean that<br>
&gt; e-books from DOD can be freely circulated and reused (as per<br>
&gt; <a href="http://opendefinition.org" target="_blank">opendefinition.org</a>)? E.g. will scanned e-books or digital editions be made<br>
&gt; available with a legal waiver (Public Domain Mark / CC0) or equivalent &quot;no<br>
&gt; rights reserved&quot; legal disclaimers?<br>
<br>
</div>Is this a little risky? I&#39;m all for making definitely-PD material<br>
available, but I would assume that a good proportion of late-19th<br>
century material is potentially still in copyright - the traditional<br>
&quot;safe&quot; cutoff date is around 1870.<br>
<br>
Unless it checks on a case-by-case basis, the KB would be tagging<br>
material that is likely to still be in copyright, and while it&#39;s<br>
probably safe for them to make it available, I don&#39;t know if we should<br>
be encouraging using PD marks for possibly unfree material.<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
--<br>
- Andrew Gray<br>
  <a href="mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk">andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk</a><br>
<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br>
GLAM mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org">GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Jonathan Gray<br><br>Head of Community<br>The Open Knowledge Foundation<br><a href="http://www.okfn.org" target="_blank">http://www.okfn.org</a><br>
<br><a href="http://twitter.com/jwyg" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/jwyg</a><br>
</div>