[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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