[cc-community] Collaboration for public domain flowcharts
Gisle Hannemyr
gisle at ifi.uio.no
Wed Apr 1 02:40:55 EDT 2009
I think there is another similar effort, coordinated by Jonathan Gray
<jonathan.gray at okfn.org> of the Open Knowledge Foundation,
to create such flowcharts. I don't know if there are any grounds
for collaboration, but check it out:
http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators
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Andy Kaplan-Myrth wrote:
> Hi everyone, [crossposted from pd-calculators list]
>
> Back when we started working on PDwiki, we wrote a flowchart for
> Canadian copyright terms as a starting point for the algorithms for
> calculating when a work enters the public domain. I wrote it using the
> open source diagramming software DIA. You can find the current version
> of the flowchart online here, along with its source:
> http://blog.kaplan-myrth.ca/updates-to-the-canadian-copyri
> More on PDWiki: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Pdwiki
>
> I've been thinking about how I can help kickstart similar efforts
> elsewhere. One way might be to pare down the Canadian flowchart to a
> basic template that will serve as a starting point for other
> countries. Or, if there aren't enough commonalities among
> jurisdictions, perhaps it would be helpful for other projects just to
> start from the Canadian flowchart?
>
> Either way, I've put the Canadian flowchart on a collaborative space
> where other projects can work on it online:
> http://www.glinkr.net/map/spot/1234/
>
> Glinkr's import/export feature doesn't work properly, but if you
> register on the site you'll apparently be able to make a copy of my
> flowchart to work on.
>
> Please contact me if you think it's a good idea to make a common
> template and you're interested in working on it, or if you have other
> ideas for using the Canadian chart to help map copyright in your own
> jurisdiction.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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