On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Padraic <user.padraic@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there, I remember at one point the idea being tossed around that Wikimedia Canada could host materials on wikimedia.ca that are PD in Canada, but not the US.

At [[Commons:Deletion requests/Library and Archives Canada non-PD images]], I think we've discovered such a class of images: photos taken after 1949, whose copyright is either corporate or Crown. In Canada, their copyright expires 50 years after publication, but in the US, since they were not PD in 1996 when the URAA was passed, they won't enter the PD untill 95 years fter publication. I think it'd be nice to host them somewhere for that 45-year gap, since Canadian users would be able to use them, and we would know exactly when they'd be eligible for Commons.

Right now, there are only 4 such images, but clearly there is a huge potential for more materials (especially when you consider things like the NFB). Assuming the 4 images get deleted from Commons, I'm going to throw them up on my Flickr page, with the appropriate copyright notices. However, I just thought I'd say that I'd be interested in working such a Wikimedia-CA project -- and more importantly, if there is enough material to warrant starting such a wiki, in a non-WMF-sanctioned, third-party way, before all the official chapter stuff gets sorted out, I'd be interested in working on that. I'd even be willing to get a domain name (cancommons.ca?) and host it all, if other people were willing to contribute.

Thoughts?
Padraic

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