PD:Timeline
View the key events of the Public Domain Project:
2009
January
Establishment of the Public Domain Project
December
The Public Domain Radio starts his broadcasting
2010
January
The MediaWiki of the Public Domain Project goes online
December
The Public Domain Project is among the winners of the first competition of ideas of
Wikimedia Deutschland
2011
July
OutOfCopyright.eu makes Public Domain Calculators available for the entire European Union
"Works that have fallen into the public domain after their term of copyright protection has elapsed can be reely used by everybody. In theory that means that these works can be reused by anyone for any purpose which includes commercial exploitation.
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In practice however determining if a work has passed into the public domain can prove very difficult. This is especially true when attempting to determine the public domain status of content in multiple jurisdictions. As part of the EuropeanaConnect project Knowledgeland and the Institute for information Law at the University of Amsterdam have developed public domain calculators to answer the question whether a certain work or other subject matter vested with copyright or neighbouring rights (related rights) has fallen into the public domain. These public domain Calculators have been developed for 30 countries (the European Union plus Switzerland, Iceland & Norway) and are available at www.outofcopyright.eu
Users can use the calculators (and the underlying research published at outofcopyright.eu) to determine the copyright status of works in all these countries. This is the first time that this question has been structurally researched across all European jurisdictions.
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We encourage everyone interested in the public domain to try the calculators, comment on them and re-use the published research. All research and other material on Outofcopyright is available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license and the software powering the calculators can be reused under the terms of the EUPL license
The Public Domain Project is very happy about this anouncement and would like to thank everyone who was involved creating it!
September
At the 28. September 2011 it finaly arrived: Our ELP Laser turntable mades it way to us after a long 25 week waiting time. The Laser turntable is provided to us by the Wikimedia Germany. We will make a "unboxing-video" in a few days for the Wikimedia Blog and to show you our new workhorse.
October
First digitized gramophone record available
The mission to digitalize our gramophone records starts on October 26th, 2011 with a first flac file. The PD project is proud to present the first test record Purcell: A Trumpet Voluntary in 96-kHz/16-bit. This file is produced without a declicker/decrackler-software. We are still in testing phase, but stay in patience.
2012
February
The ITZ of the Zurich University of the Arts offers the server housing and sponsors bandwidth and rackspace
July
First cylinder recordings are entered into the database.
August
Martin Osterwalder donates 35,000 gramophone records (phonograph records)
September
First speech at a Wikimedia conference (WikiCon 2012 in Dornbirn, Austria)
December
Establishment of the Swiss Foundation Public Domain
2013
February
The supervision of the foundation is now up to the Federal Department of Home Affairs
May
The Swiss Foundation Public Domain is now officially a charitable organization (tax exempt) in Switzerland
August
We attend at the Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong. The result is a partnership with a digitization project in Uruguay
2014
January
The Public Domain project is actively supported by Wikimedia CH in 2014
February
Integration of the digitization project in the CD recording of the SOS-ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich)
April
Dominio Público Sonoro Uruguay becomes the official representative of the Public Domain Project in South America
July
Start of the digitization of the Martin Osterwalder collection. WMCH financed an employee with Asperger syndrome and the SOS-ETH is sponsoring a space for the recording studio
August
We attend at the Wikimania 2014 in London. Wikimedia Deutschland gives us a literary grant for the procurement of much needed reference books (Copyright investigation)
September
We attend at WikiCon 2014 in Cologne. Wikimedia CH assumes the cost for another employee with Asperger syndrome. The record cleaning machine is now ready for use. We find a pleasure in the Wiki of Music (WoM) and discuss about a closer cooperation
December
We are guests in the radio show Hackerfunk of Radio Radius and Christian Mäder published his blog about the Public Domain Project.
Visit also
- Photo stream of the Public Domain Project on Flickr.
