On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.comwrote:
While reading the FAQ of Creative Commons about the new Public Domain Mark, I wondered what are the consequences for our projects. Will I use PDM in future anyhow on Commons, for example?
Hopefully the main consequence is that the PDM encourages more, and more accurate, annotating of public domain works elsewhere on the web, which means a bigger universe for Wikimedia projects to pull from (and into Commons).
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_tags#Public_domain is currently richer and works well as far as I can tell, so I wouldn't advocate for using PDM directly on Commons. Maybe in the future, if PDM is wildly successful (use, recognition by users and software, ...), as I hope it will be.
Mike