Public Domain Calculators Meeting

Details

public domain calculators meeting

When: 10-11th November 2009
Where: Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Wiki: http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators/Meeting
Notes from meeting

Overview

This event will be an opportunity to work on the public domain calculators as part of Communia Working Group 6. There will be no formal talks or presentations, and time will be primarily spent collaboratively looking at on mapping out copyright law in different jurisdictions.

Expected outputs

Documentation on how to make a flow diagram representing decisions about whether or not a work is in copyright (using Dutch law as an example)
Footage to be used for short film introducing calculators

Outputs

Flow charts on Archive.org:
- Flow chart for Netherlands
- Flow chart for UK
- Generic flow chart used as basis for questions to legal experts
draft Google Form with questions to determine copyright status of work + spreadsheet
Tutorial
- Tutorial page on wiki
- Google Form for legal experts to be used as basis for building public domain calculators
  - Questions for experts - Google Form
  - Questions for experts - Google Form
- Questions for legal experts (from Christina)
Notes from meeting
Footage for film - based on transcript

Documentation

Action items

Paul: include national specific logic higher in chart (reorganise charts) - 2009-11-16
Paul: send charts to Jonathan in OmniGraffer, PDF, PNG, EPS formats - 2009-11-16
Jonathan: upload to wiki and relevant places + ping everyone to let them know- 2009-11-19
Christina + Jonathan: start discussion about tutorials - 2009-11-18
Christina + Jonathan: responsible for making sure tutorial and questionnaires are finished - 2009-11-30
Christina + Jonathan: ping other EU juridictions re: calculators
Jonathan: edit film and ping everyone before publicising - 2009-11-19?
Ignasi: make the Spanish chart following new models - 2009-11-30
Justin: set up next meeting with Tulane to discuss how to take forward - 2009-11-19
Mathias: finish Sweden calculator (Jonathan to ping re: deadline)
Lucie: think about other people to ask - 2009-11-30

Agenda

Why
Howto Document
Peer review process
Drafting flow-charts
Film

10th November 2009

1200: Introductions and planning
1300: Lunch
1400-1530: Review existing work and howto document
1600-1800: Collaborate on a new country (the Netherlands)
2000 - Dinner

11th November 2009

0930-1100: Review Netherlands chart, prepare UK one
1130-1300: Produce generic chart and refine expert questions
1400-1500: Send out to experts
1500-1600: Wrap-up and review

Aims

Specifically, the meeting aims to:

Review existing work done on the calculators (in UK, Canada, Norway, Spain, ...)
Go through Dutch copyright law (in English translation) and create a flow chart
Produce documentation for the process of making flow charts so those working on other jurisdictions have a guide to the process

Organisers

This event is organised by Communia, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge.