[Foundation-l] Creative Commons and Access plan to create PD catalog like WM Commons

[Ray Saintonge]

Nicholas Moreau wrote:

>Just found this press release (
>http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=582837),
>the second of the paragraphs that I've quoted is the most important...
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>Access Copyright and Creative Commons Canada Announce Public Domain Registry
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>TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - March 3, 2006) -
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>Ground-breaking project will feature globally searchable catalogue of
>Canadian culture
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>Access Copyright, The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency and Creative
>Commons Canada, in partnership with Creative Commons Corporation in the US,
>today announced the development of a Canadian public domain registry. The
>ground-breaking project - the most comprehensive of its kind in Canada -
>will create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that
>are in the Canadian public domain.
>...
>The innovative registry's backbone will be Access Copyright's Rights
>Management System, the largest database of copyright information in Canada.
>The Wikimedia Foundation, developers of the popular online encyclopedia
>Wikipedia, will supply software that will allow the public to contribute
>information to the registry. Individuals will be able to use the registry to
>determine whether a published work is in the public domain. The registry
>will also link to digital versions of the work, and provide information
>about where a paper copy of the work can be purchased.
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>This sounds like we're in partnership with the Creative Commons, which, to
>my knowledge (as a member of the Communications Committee), we're not.
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>I'd love if we were, and they could just upload the content to Wikimedia
>Commons, but they're not. It's rather deceptive.
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It says nothing about bein in partnershi, just that Wikimedia will 
supply software.  That software is available for anybody to use.  They 
are clearly heading in a favorable directions, so we should be careful 
not to look for difficulties.
Ec