Hi Geni & all,
When WMUK's promoted public domain day in the past, we've run into problems with
explaining what this actually means for Wikimedia - since all of the projects follow US
copyright law, nothing seems to change in terms of what content the Wikimedia projects can
host and/or reuse. The only change that this seems to make is that UK residents can
legally upload content that's also outside of US copyright law, rather than risking
infringing UK copyright by doing so - which is a considerably harder point to get across
to people.
I guess we could say "yay, the content's now public domain in the UK - please
could the US change its laws so that it's also public domain in the US so we can use
it on Wikimedia", but I'm not sure that the news would reach the right audiences
to say that...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mike
On 31 Oct 2011, at 12:37, geni wrote:
Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go
public domain in
the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and
suchlike.
My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly
focused on the your paintings thing but I hope to expand it a bit
before the new year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1941_deaths
--
geni
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