Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Abu badali

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Have you read the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons? You can download it from here. Also, why do you think there is a problem with the 1930 Butterick catalog? Such a catalog would have entered the public domain in 1958 unless copyright renewal paperwork was filed that year, and I don't see any Butterick renewals in the LOC database from anytime around then (no surprise, about 85% of copyrights were not renewed, back in the days when renewal was necessary, and a 28-year-old catalog is just the sort of thing that most companies wouldn't bother to renew). ~~Does Wikipedia actually have a policy about not using such materials even though they're probably in the public domain? I didn't see anything about that at WP:C.~~ I see at WP:IUP#Public_domain there is a rather inflexible prescription spelled out: don't use anything newer than 1923, with no attention whatsoever given to whether the copyright was renewed (or even ever existed). Should something be done about that, and if so, what, and by who? Phr (talk) 12:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with being an admin, and as such, I've moved it here. Ral315 (talk) 15:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)