From Open Knowledge Foundation

Working Group on the Public Domain

Purpose

1. Research and analysis work to determine what is in the public domain in different jurisdictions
2. To build an registry of public domain material
   1. Build database of metadata on works (e.g. bibliographic metadata, ...)
   2. Make available as a web service

Projects

• Public Domain Works - a registry of works in the public domain
• Public Domain Calculators - a project to build algorithms to determine what is in the public domain in different jurisdictions

Created: 2009-04-10

Merging Public Domain Works and Public Domain Calculators projects.

Events

• See the Public Domain Calendar for details.

Project Members

See http://publicdomain.okfn.org/wg

Participate

• Join the pd-discuss list

Actions

• 2010-01-19 Start vision statement discussion on discuss list
• 2010-01-12 Extend formal WG invitations to relevant parties
• 2009-04-10 Deprecate blog.publicdomainworks.net in favour of main blog.okfn.org and here
  • Move posts to blog.okfn.org redirecting to blog.okfn.org/pdw/
  • Move participate/other general material here on pdw project page
• Move existing wiki pages under here (as necessary)
• Plan a coordination/progress meeting on PublicDomainCalculators