http://www.publicdomainworks.net Building a registry of sound recordings Tue, 20 May 2008 15:38:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As followers of the [mailing list](http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/pdb-discuss) will know we are now planning to join forces with Creative Commons on the Internet Archive's Open Library project. Our first step is to develop 'public domain calculators' for the different jurisdictions across Europe. Here a calculator is just an algorithm for determining whether ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/11/20/public-domain-calculators/ Public Domain Works advises users on the copyright status of a particular track to encourage creators and entrepreneurs to build on cultural history. Let’s say you want to use, sample or reissue a particular track, whether its Elvis, Elgar or Elmore Judd. Reusing even a fraction of a copyright-protected track ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/08/31/alpha-launch-of-public-domain-works/ To follow up our previous post on the statistics we'd been mining from the composer data donated to use by Phillip Harper herewith is a list of the public domain composers (i.e. composers whose works are now in the public domain as they died more than 70 years ago): ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/06/10/public-domain-composers/ Last Tuesday 17th April i went to my first Own-It event - 'Dead or Alive: Whose art work is up for grabs?' - and was very happy to see a roomful of artists and creative types discussing the ins and outs of copyright law. I was however kinda surprised to hear ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/04/20/public-understanding-of-the-public-domain/ We've been busy [hacking away](http://p.knowledgeforge.net/pdw/trac/timeline) and as a result we now have some rough statistics: 1. Composers whose works are out of copyright. Of the 1083 composers listed in the [data kindly donated to us by Philip Harper](http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2006/05/25/composer-data/) we estimate that, as of January 1st 2007: * Out ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/03/25/some-statistics/ The kindly people at BBC Archives have supplied our project with 1.8 gigs (over 1,000,000 items) of data, which includes, in particular, listing of antique recordings. The exact rights status of this data has yet to be determined, so unfortunately for now we can only analyze its contents. Before ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2007/01/09/pd-burn-receives-bbc-phonograms-data/ As of last weekend there is a alpha version of the registry up at: If all went well Tom Chance demoed this at the iCommons summit in Rio de Janeiro. The database system and its interface is in alpha stage and the site is a prototype designed for testing purposes. ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2006/06/29/alpha-site-up/ Many moons ago I came across: Which has lots of data on authors, books and composers (the guy seems to be transcribing a large amount of the US copyright register by hand!). In the light of our work on the db I wrote to the owner of the site at ... http://www.publicdomainworks.net/2006/05/25/composer-data/