Sorry about the lack of reply here, Jeremy. I think it's quite a powerful quote ("people will die never experiencing ..."), but the connection to Wikimedia might be somewhat unclear to many, and is in fact a bit complex (as I learned myself when preparing a blog post for Public Domain Day 2013, which likewise linked to that blog of the Center for the Study of Public Domain, see also https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/public-domain/). The linked post makes the important point that basically no works entered the public domain on January 1, 2014 in the US, but in fact quite a few works became available for use on Wikimedia projects like Wikisource and Commons, because of Commons' "country of origin" policy. I hope we will have a good blog post for Public Domain Day 2015 again.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
RT from @wikimedia ?
https://twitter.com/mik3cap/status/487064683166568448
I have no idea if that kind of thing is in scope. (Haven't been paying too much attention to what's on the account already. Tweet is not directly about Wikimedia)
-Jeremy
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