I guess here's what I'm looking for answers to:
1. Is anybody interested in contributing to this kind of project, or should
I just stick to doing it by myself (probably on Flickr)?
2. Would anyone object to my launching a private wiki on the grounds that
this could eventually be done by WMC in a more official fashion?
I'll probably send out something on commons-l about this -- but that depends
on the answer to #2.
P
2008/5/24 Gary King <garyking(a)gmail.com>om>:
I ran a WHOIS on the domain name. I'm a software
engineering focusing
primarily on web development, FYI, so if you guys ever need any
help... :)
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Kevin T <ktsquare(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I wonder how Gary knows that the domain is registered to Ray Saintonge?
Using some sorts of searches, I presume?
Padraic's idea worth the effort to be explored, but as Andrew had spoken,
copyright law is sophisticated in the eyes of laymen.
Regards,
Kevin
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Padraic <user.padraic(a)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
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