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geni | 1 Jan 21:40
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Re: Press release (Public Domain Day)

2009/12/31 David Gerard <dgerard <at> gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/31 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil <at> wikinewsie.org>:
>> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 18:44 +0000, Douglas Gardner wrote:
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>>> Out of interest, is it legal to upload these at 00:00UTC, or at 00:00 where
>>> WMF is based?
>
>> That's a question for an international copyright lawyer.
>> Since the servers actually run on UTC; why not ignore these quaint ideas
>> of adjusting time based on where people are in the world. :-P
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>
> Britain is presently on UTC and this is British law, so 00:00:01 UTC
> Jan 1 2010 would be right, I should think.

That is correct. In terms of timing only UK is significant since
nothing not already in the public domain in the US is going to enter
the public domain in the US until 2018 (when stuff published in 1923
will hit the public domain).

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Charles Matthews | 2 Jan 21:27

Telegraph runs story ...

In the end, a story appeared
today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6916596/WB-Yeats-and-Sigmund-Freud-works-posted-on-Wikipedia-as-copyright-expires.html 

Well done indeed to Mike and Andrew in particular for pushing on past 
all the obstacles.

Charles

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joseph seddon | 2 Jan 21:31
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Re: Telegraph runs story ...

"To illustrate the potential, Wikimedia has organised for a range of its celebrity backers to record their favourite Yeats poems, which will be posted online over the next few days. "

Since when?

Seddon

> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:27:30 +0000
> From: charles.r.matthews <at> ntlworld.com
> To: wikimediauk-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Telegraph runs story ...
>
> In the end, a story appeared today:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6916596/WB-Yeats-and-Sigmund-Freud-works-posted-on-Wikipedia-as-copyright-expires.html
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>
> Well done indeed to Mike and Andrew in particular for pushing on past
> all the obstacles.
>
> Charles
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Thomas Dalton | 2 Jan 21:32
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2010/1/2 joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet <at> hotmail.co.uk>:
> "To illustrate the potential, Wikimedia has organised for a range of its
> celebrity backers to record their favourite Yeats poems, which will be
> posted online over the next few days. "
>
> Since when?

I remember seeing it proposed, but it being organised is news to me...

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Charles Matthews | 2 Jan 21:32

Re: Telegraph runs story ...

joseph seddon wrote:
> "To illustrate the potential, Wikimedia has organised for a range of 
> its celebrity backers to record their favourite Yeats poems, which 
> will be posted online over the next few days. "
>
> Since when?
Important not to believe everything in the papers, isn't it?

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Andrew Gray | 2 Jan 21:35
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2010/1/2 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews <at> ntlworld.com>:
> In the end, a story appeared today:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6916596/WB-Yeats-and-Sigmund-Freud-works-posted-on-Wikipedia-as-copyright-expires.html
>
> Well done indeed to Mike and Andrew in particular for pushing on past
> all the obstacles.

I like the addition at the end of last year / next year. Something to
include for next year's one, I think - having an "In the past few
years..." line gives the opportunity to cram in some extra names the
journalist may recognise.

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Brian McNeil | 2 Jan 21:54
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On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 20:32 +0000, Charles Matthews wrote:
> joseph seddon wrote:
> > "To illustrate the potential, Wikimedia has organised for a range of 
> > its celebrity backers to record their favourite Yeats poems, which 
> > will be posted online over the next few days. "
> >
> > Since when?
> Important not to believe everything in the papers, isn't it?
> 
> Charles

I contacted Stephen Fry's agent but got no response. It may have been
bad timing given the holidays, perhaps someone else could try and see if
that can be arranged after the fact.

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Thomas Dalton | 2 Jan 21:58
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2010/1/2 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil <at> wikinewsie.org>:
> I contacted Stephen Fry's agent but got no response. It may have been
> bad timing given the holidays, perhaps someone else could try and see if
> that can be arranged after the fact.

I contacted his agent once to see if he would be interested in getting
involved with our bid for Wikimania 2010 and also got no response. If
he hadn't just announced that he's going incommunicado until April to
work on his autobiography, I would have suggested contacting him via
Twitter. He won't do any recordings until he's finished the book,
though.

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Ian A. Holton | 2 Jan 22:35
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I don't think that contacting him via Twitter would be the most effective way - you can imagine how many DM and <at> he gets per minute at over 1 million followers ;) How was the agent contacted, E-Mail? I often find the the traditional telephone call can often work wonders.

Ian
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton <at> gmail.com> wrote:
2010/1/2 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil <at> wikinewsie.org>:
> I contacted Stephen Fry's agent but got no response. It may have been
> bad timing given the holidays, perhaps someone else could try and see if
> that can be arranged after the fact.

I contacted his agent once to see if he would be interested in getting
involved with our bid for Wikimania 2010 and also got no response. If
he hadn't just announced that he's going incommunicado until April to
work on his autobiography, I would have suggested contacting him via
Twitter. He won't do any recordings until he's finished the book,
though.

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Thomas Dalton | 2 Jan 22:39
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2010/1/2 Ian A. Holton <poeloq <at> gmail.com>:
> I don't think that contacting him via Twitter would be the most effective
> way - you can imagine how many DM and @ he gets per minute at over 1 million
> followers ;) How was the agent contacted, E-Mail? I often find the the
> traditional telephone call can often work wonders.

He frequently replies to people that talk to him on twitter. When I
contacted his agent it was by email, a telephone call might work but
there is no guarantee you'll get to talk to anyone other than his
agent's secretary.

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