Hi Phoebe and all,
In my class at the School of information sciences and librarianship (Université de
Montréal) we are doing a triple activity a little bite like the MIT libraries. I invite
wikipedian friends on Tuesday, January 15, in my class to celebrate:
* The 18 years of Wikipedia
* The launch of the # 1lib1ref campaign
* and the public domain day :)
From 8:30 am to 10:00 am, I will present the bases and, from 10:00 am, some wikipedians
friends will come and say a few words about their commitment and help the students apply
these basics during a edit-a-thon workshop. There are 70 students.
This activity will continue in the afternoon, either at the School or in the libraries of
UdeM - this will be decided shortly - around public domain. The issue of public domain is
very important for Canada too this year for rather different, and even dramatically
opposite reasons.
Last fall, under the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement
(
USMCA),<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80…
Canada succeeded in preserving the Canadian cultural exemption but, against all odds, this
exception now excludes the duration of the copyright terms. Canada will join the
"life + 70" category in the same way as the United States and France currently -
instead of the international standard of "life + 50 years" of which Canadians
had benefited under the Berne Convention which had governed it so far. Canada will
therefore experience a freeze on the mass expiration of copyright for the coming two
decades. The bright cortege of public domain works will be suspended for the next twenty
years.
So in this rather sad context, we will celebrate what could be our last year of public
domain before long, writing articles, using images and texts on Wikipedia and other
projects. We prepare for this with an Advent Calendar for the public domain
(
https://domainepublic.savoirslibres.ca/2019/) that we produce all month of December
through the 1st of January, Public domain Day.
Cheers !
Marie
Marie D. Martel, M.S.I, Ph.D Philosophie
Professeure adjointe
École de bibliothéconomie et sciences de l’information (EBSI)
Faculté des arts et des sciences
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montréal (QC) H3C 3J7
Groupe design ∩ société
www.gds.umontreal.ca<http://www.gds.umontreal.ca>
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Le 2 janv. 2019 à 16:40, phoebe ayers
<phoebe.wiki@gmail.com<mailto:phoebe.wiki@gmail.com>> a écrit :
Hi all!
Is anyone doing anything with public domain day and Wikipedia? We are running an
edit-a-thon on Wikipedia Day centered around 1923 books we digitized here at MIT
libraries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Public_Domain_Day_2019
but I am struggling with what kinds of articles to work on or activities to do.
Any ideas? Is anyone doing something similar in their libraries? I think it would be fun
to go through the Hathitrust 1923 collection, which is now open, to see what would be good
for Wikipedia:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?c=149827760;a=srchls;q1=*
cheers,
Phoebe
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