Talk:2016 in public domain

Signpost report

Hi, I've started thinking about creating a Signpost report about Public Domain Day 2016 here. Help is welcome! Best, --Gnom (Diskussion) 10:16, 2. Nov. 2015 (CET)

I wrote an editorial for the Signpost for Public Domain Day 2014. I see a great urgency in making this day much more widespread and raising awareness. I don't think most people realize its significance, particularly as more corporations try to find ways to combat release of material into the public domain (for example, by extending copyright laws). If you need assistance, I can try to assist. - kosboot (talk) 12:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi kosboot, thank you for your reply. The issue really is that there will be no Public Domain Day in the U.S. in 2016, as you wrote. In other news, I've received access to the @publicdomainday twitter account which I will use to promote the event. --Gnom (talk) 08:41, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

I shall be attending the Wikisource Community User Group/Wikisource Conference 2015 in a couple of weeks and hope to discuss it there. The page Gnom started is very useful in that respect. My own view is that we should diversify to get the broadest range of copyright options by working out the smallest number of servers we would need in different jurisdictions to get the largest spread of copyright availability and then set up complementary sites. Leutha (talk) 10:28, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

User:Gnom - that's not what I wrote. In the U.S., until 2019, Public Domain Day frees up unpublished work by authors who died more than 70 years ago. On Jan. 1, 2016, unpublished work by those who died in 1945 will become public domain in the U.S. Published work has to wait until 2019 when work from 1923 becomes public domain (the conclusion of the 20-year "catch up" period that was passed by the U.S. Congress to go in effect beginning in 1998). - kosboot (talk) 11:42, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi kosboot, thank you for making that distinction clear. I updated my page accordingly. --Gnom (talk) 23:17, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello Leutha, the physical location of servers is not in any way a factor to determine which copyright law applies to the Wikimedia projects. Please do not confuse anybody at the Wikisource Conference. The idea that by moving servers to other countries we can evade a certain country's copyright is a myth that has stuck with the community for far too long. For further information, please consult this page. Best, --Gnom (talk) 23:17, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for info. I found Tobias' final point interesting. That we can evade a certain country's copyright law if we block access to that country, as is done by Youtube. Not entirely desirable, but something which might help the argument for making copyright laws more open. 109.150.114.235 Leutha (talk) 08:24, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Organization of this page is at fault

Last year I asked that the community not organize this page by occupation because there are many that do not fit within the stated categories.@Halloweennight:. I suggest we put the occupations in another column so that more people (whose occupations do not fit comfortably can be added). Then the table can be sorted based on occupation should that be wanted. kosboot (talk) 16:36, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Unless someone objects, I'll try to reorganize the page this weekend. - kosboot (talk) 18:25, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

That would be OK as far as I am concerned. Could you also create table entries for the listed people with at least birth and death dates compeleted? --Mirokado (talk) 19:38, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Sure Mirokado - I think it best to have separate columns for birth and death dates. I suppose I could make the death dates yyyy-mm-dd to make it sortable in strict chronological order - that would take some time, but the list is still short enough that it wouldn't be a burden. - kosboot (talk) 20:07, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. The dates are sorting OK for me as they are, that is what {{dts}} is for. --Mirokado (talk) 20:21, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Incorrect information restored by reversion

@HalloweenNight:: You have reverted the correction of information for Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen here without comment and despite the message I left on your talkpage here. Please correct the page and sort out what to do with the incorrect information. --Mirokado (talk) 17:22, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

United Kingdom

It makes no sense to separately identify authors as being English, Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish, as the appropriate copyright legislation is all at United Kingdom level. Similarly, if the intention is to indicate a transition from one country to another in the author's lifteime, the United Kingdom has existed as an entity since 1800 - it was not formed within the lifetime of any author who comes within the scope of this article.

I would further note that technically Eoin MacNeill was born and was a citizen of the United Kingdom for at least the first 55 years of his life, but I'll leave that can of worms alone... Nick Cooper (talk) 14:00, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata

So how does one generate a list of deaths in 1946 for the 2017 list? - kosboot (talk) 15:37, 24 February 2016 (UTC)