New subject: [Wikimedia-Canada] PD in Canada, but not the US

23 May 2008

This might be a possibility

----- Original Message ----
From: Padraic &lt;user.padraic(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:23:32 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-Canada] PD in Canada, but not the US

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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