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 open registry of public domain material

   1. Build database of metadata on works (e.g. bibliographic metadata, ...)

   2. Make available as a web service (http://publicdomainworks.net/)

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

• Public Domain Group on CKAN - a registry of collections of public domain works

Created: 2009-04-10

Merging Public Domain Works and Public Domain Calculators projects.

Events

• See the Public Domain Calendar for details.

Project Members

Active

• Christina Angelopoulos, IViR, Netherlands
• Tim Cowlishaw, OKF, UK
• Ronan Deazley, University of Glasgow
• Severine Dusollier, University of Namur
• Primavera De Filippi, European University Institute, Italy
• Lucie Gilbault, IViR
• Jonathan Gray, OKF, UK
• Gisle Hannemyr, University of Oslo

• Michael Hart, Founder, Project Gutenberg

• Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Uppsala University
• Michael Holloway, OKF, UK
• Paul Keller, Kennisland
• Mathias Klang, OKF/University of Göteborg, UK
• Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Universitat de Barcelona
• Paula Le Dieu, OKF, UK
• Justin Levy, Tulane University
• Nathan Lewis

• Hugh McGuire, Founder, Librivox

• Maura Marx, Open Knowledge Commons, USA
• Ziad Maraqa, Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP)
• Greg Newby, Project Gutenberg
• Rufus Pollock, OKF/Cambridge University, UK
• David Read, OKF, UK
• Oya Yildirim Rieger, Cornell University Library, USA
• Peter Hirtle, Cornell University Library, USA
• Alek Tarkowski, Warsaw University
• Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Tulane University
• Sara Wingate Gray, OKF, UK
• Maarten Zeinstra, Kennisland
• Franco Iacomella, Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Free Knowledge Institute

• Ben O'Steen

• Hugh McGuire, LibriVox.org

Alumni

• Tom Chance

Status: Active

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 http://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

Related Links

• Please add any news items of interest and relevant PD rss feeds to the PDWorks friendfeed!

• http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/public_domain/ -- todo: invite!