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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