[cc-community] Finding PD content on Gutenberg

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Mon Apr 7 06:31:54 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 16:12 -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> 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.

Yep, I'm meeting with Jonathan and other OKFN folks in london here
before wed to go over this work...want to get it integrated and sync
roadmaps asap!

Jon


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