Open Clip Art Library is helping celebreate Public Domain Day!!! All content submitted to the Open Clip Art Library is dedicated into the public domain! Hooray!!! As a community, we need to look at Creative Commons new CC0 project and figure out how to migrate to this once released hopefully in mid-January. Here is more from the original post:
January 1st is Public Domain Day, as noted by copyrightwatch.ca:
Welcome to 2008, and let’s welcome into the Public Domain thousands, indeed millions, of creative works from the collective cultural past of our little planet and its many countries. Yes, it’s January 1st, Public Domain Day in most countries of the world, where copyright runs from the death of the author of a work until the end of the 50th, 70th, or some other year thereafter.
Read the whole post for some notable works falling into the public domain in some jurisdictions.
Everybody’s Libraries also has an informative post about Public Domain Day 2008.
A post from Lessig on Public Domain Day 2004.
The microformats community jumped the gun, announcing a transition of their wiki to the public domain a few days ago.
Creative Commons offers a public domain dedication and we’ve announced that we’ll be upgrading and extending that this year with the CC0 project.
Why is OCAL moving to CC0? I don’t understand what CC0 offers that is missing from CC-PD.
Oh, CC0 is just the name for the new CC Public Domain dedication that will work internationally…there are some potential bugs with the CC PD dedication internationally, and it is also a general project to show freedom of data.