[cc-community] Finding PD content on Gutenberg

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Thu Apr 3 19:12:52 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Yes - this has been on the cards for a while. We've been thinking about
> helping to build a set of 'public domain calculators' which would
> determine whether or not a give work was in the public domain in a given
> jurisdiction:
>
>  http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators
>  http://www.publicdomainworks.net/
>
> Sorry the link doesn't seem to work, try:
>
>  http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/svn/trunk/

These calculators look interesting!  Note that there is work on similar 
functionality going on in the OpenLibrary project - I'm CC:ing David 
Strauss who's looking at that work, and to whom I once promised some help 
on this stuff that I haven't made good on (but maybe I will - ask me 
off-list, David...).

-- Asheesh.

-- 
Odd that we think definitions are definitive.   :-)
 		-- Larry Wall in <199702221943.LAA20388 at wall.org>


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