Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well.
When should it be put out? Given that 1 Jan falls on a Friday and the previous Monday is a bank holiday, does Tuesday 29th make sense?
Also coincides with a WMUK board meeting, so if anything needs approving at that level (although I'm not sure it needs to) we can do that as well.
I guess we should add some bits at the end: - explaining who WMUK - link into Britain Loves Wikipedia?
Headline? Wikipedia looks forward to Public Domain Day?
----- "Brian McNeil" brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
From: "Brian McNeil" brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 17:12:14 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:08 +0000, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews : > > > Draft, then. > > > Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas > movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well > worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportunity > to push his works. Send to the more literary publications? I took Charles' draft, put it on the wiki, and did a slight rewrite. David's suggestion is an excellent point to add to a detail I inserted - build the membership. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Public_domain_day -- Brian McNeil Wikinewsie.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:42 +0000, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well.
When should it be put out? Given that 1 Jan falls on a Friday and the previous Monday is a bank holiday, does Tuesday 29th make sense?
Yes. That's a week to see who you might can get signed up to it.
Also coincides with a WMUK board meeting, so if anything needs approving at that level (although I'm not sure it needs to) we can do that as well.
I guess we should add some bits at the end:
- explaining who WMUK
- link into Britain Loves Wikipedia?
Headline? Wikipedia looks forward to Public Domain Day?
I sent out a few emails to see who might be interested in this. I'm waiting on a response from the US Copyright Office as to precisely which of Yeats' works will be PD on January 1.
2009/12/22 Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org:
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:42 +0000, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well.
When should it be put out? Given that 1 Jan falls on a Friday and the previous Monday is a bank holiday, does Tuesday 29th make sense?
Yes. That's a week to see who you might can get signed up to it.
Also coincides with a WMUK board meeting, so if anything needs approving at that level (although I'm not sure it needs to) we can do that as well.
I guess we should add some bits at the end:
- explaining who WMUK
- link into Britain Loves Wikipedia?
Headline? Wikipedia looks forward to Public Domain Day?
I sent out a few emails to see who might be interested in this. I'm waiting on a response from the US Copyright Office as to precisely which of Yeats' works will be PD on January 1.
Basically anything here pre 1923:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Butler_Yeats#1920s
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