Just found this press release ( http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&se…)nFor=582837), the second of the paragraphs that I've quoted is the most important... ---- Access Copyright and Creative Commons Canada Announce Public Domain Registry TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - March 3, 2006) - Ground-breaking project will feature globally searchable catalogue of Canadian culture Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency and Creative Commons Canada, in partnership with Creative Commons Corporation in the US, today announced the development of a Canadian public domain registry. The ground-breaking project - the most comprehensive of its kind in Canada - will create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian public domain. ... The innovative registry's backbone will be Access Copyright's Rights Management System, the largest database of copyright information in Canada. The Wikimedia Foundation, developers of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will supply software that will allow the public to contribute information to the registry. Individuals will be able to use the registry to determine whether a published work is in the public domain. The registry will also link to digital versions of the work, and provide information about where a paper copy of the work can be purchased. ---- This sounds like we're in partnership with the Creative Commons, which, to my knowledge (as a member of the Communications Committee), we're not. I'd love if we were, and they could just upload the content to Wikimedia Commons, but they're not. It's rather deceptive. Nick