I think we should avoid publicly celebrating that someone's murder 70 years ago means that their work is now out of copyright.
Trotsky is an obvious if somewhat ironic example (if property is theft, intellectual property is ?)
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On 17 December 2010 14:24, Roger Bamkin victuallers@gmail.com wrote:
I will look at the list so far - they look very notable, but if there are authors who have bios that need polishing before we tell the press (I think this announcement is a good idea) then I would help. This is a good opportunity to remind people that they can will their works into the public domain when they die.
regards Roger
On 17 December 2010 12:13, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 December 2010 11:57, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
And that actually all excludes the American public domain position, which (as we found in 2009) makes for a much more complicated story. Hosting by the WMF on Wikisource (say) must go by US law. But there is Wikilivres, which is across the border in Canada. Any contacts there?
Wikilivres is basically Yann Forget's personal project (yannfo@gmail.com, cc'd).
There's also gutenberg.org.au, for things that are PD under Australian law (all of Orwell, for example).
- d.
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