From the monthly archives: November 2009

Size of the Public Domain III

By Rufus Pollock On November 26, 2009 · 1 Comment

Here we are going to apply the results on Public Domain “proportions” derived in our previous post and thereby obtain best estimates of the UK public domain.

The logic is simple, and similar to that in our first post in the series: we will take the Public Domain proportions from Table 3 [...]

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Bright Star

By Rufus Pollock On November 15, 2009 · 1 Comment

8/10. Beautiful and moving.

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Public Domain Calculators Workshop

By Rufus Pollock On November 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’m one of the co-organizers of a workshop on Public Domain Calculators workshop taking place next week, on the 10th and 11th of November, at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge, [...]

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Author “Significance” From Catalogue Data

By Rufus Pollock On November 5, 2009 · 2 Comments

Continues the series of post related to analyzing catalogue data, here are some stats on author “significance” as measured by the number of book entries (‘items’) for that author in the Cambridge University Library catalogue from 1400-1960 (there being 1m+ such entries).

I’ve termed this measure “significance” (with intentional quotes) as it co-mingles a [...]

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How Long Should Copyright Last? Talk at Oxford IP Seminar

By Rufus Pollock On November 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last week I was in Oxford to give a talk at the IP Seminar on “How Long Should Copyright Last?”. I have now posted the slides from the talk online.

In addition to covering the basic outline of the optimal term calculation, I was also able to give some results from the recent research [...]

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