On 17/12/2010 12:13, David Gerard wrote:
There's also gutenberg.org.au, for things that are
PD under Australian
law (all of Orwell, for example).
So what the WP list indicates is deaths before 1955, from the Australian
POV, had copyrights lapsing in or before 2005; and otherwise nothing
more until 2026 because 1956 deaths come under a 70 year rule? Damn
tricky, in that case. Not to know what the current PD position in
Australia, but to see what input needs to be placed in PDator to make it
authoritative. You have issues of nationality by birth or
naturalisation? The map of the world by jurisdictions has changed a
great deal over the last 70 years. There is probably tricky stuff about
translations and so on.
What is needed is, not exactly an "expert system" on international
copyright, but a tool that has the content of such a system encoded in
its output. Which makes this quite an enterprise, for which we have a
start from Magnus.
Charles