USER:LUPO RECHTS

Just a collection of links. Lupo

Selected Contributions

These are selected contributions—it is not a comprehensive list, but a highly subjective selection of articles I have worked on that I consider worthy mentioning or remembering for some reason or another. If you want to see all my edits, go to User contributions.

Kitchen failed to become a featured article in July 2004, mainly because people thought it was too much focused on western kitchens.

Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy became a featured article on Nov 8, 2004! (Was featured on Dec 5, 2004. The article was called "Old Swiss Confederacy" until August 29 2006.)

Krill became a featured article on July 15, 2005!

Shrimp farm became a featured article on August 29, 2005. Although it wasn't perfect yet, it apparently was good enough. (Was featured on Oct 12, 2005.)

Paul Kane became a featured article on January 10, 2006 and was featured on March 1, 2006.

Swiss peasant war of 1653 became a good article on February 25, 2007.

Swabian War became a good article on June 6, 2007.

I also had a hand in bringing the articles on Erich von Manstein ( Nov 25, 2004) and on the Antarctic krill ( June 26, 2005) to feature-worthy quality, and I put up the von Manstein article for removal as a featured article on January 8, 2006.

Did you know...

... that American primatologist Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. was the inaugural vice president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature as well as a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund? ( 2011-01-30)
...that Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini was acclaimed for aerial photography before the development and proliferation of aeroplanes? ( 2008-11-07)
...that the first complete map of Iceland, based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth? ( 2007-09-18)
...that the Swiss peasant war of 1653 was immediately caused by a currency devaluation in the canton of Berne? ( 2006-08-19)
...that Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States? ( 2006-03-30)
...that Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979? ( 2006-02-24)
... that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003? ( 2005-08-23)
...that Andrew Ellicott taught Meriwether Lewis the art of surveying? ( 2005-08-11)
...that shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater? ( 2005-07-06)
...that Japan and Poland are the world's largest Krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993? ( 2005-06-23)
Actually that was true until 2000. By 2003, the largest producers were Japan, South Korea, and Ukraine. Hmph! That's what I get from working with a 1997 source without checking the FAO databases for newer trends. Lupo
...that Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler, wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years? ( 2005-06-09)
...that Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich? ( 2005-05-17)
...that the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League? ( 2005-05-13)
...that Telford Taylor, the U.S. Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, was also an opponent of McCarthyism and an outspoken critic of the U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War? ( 2005-01-05)
...that the Egyptian numeral for 100,000 was the hieroglyph of a tadpole or a frog? ( 2004-11-10)
...that the Burgundy Wars led to the annexation of Burgundy by France? ( 2004-10-19)
...that the Roman era of the early history of Switzerland began when the armies of Julius Caesar drove the Helvetii back from Gaul? ( 2004-10-12)
...that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind? ( 2004-06-30)
...that the famous horny toad of North America is not an amphibian but a reptile officially known as the Short-horned Lizard? ( 2004-04-21)
...and that Amerigo Vespucci was also on the main page before Dyk even existed, as the old main page had something similar: 2004-02-07.

Copyright issues

http://chart.copyrightdata.com/ Pretty good, but needs to be backed by other sources (for instance, makes a broad claim that UN works were PD, which is true only for a narrow class of UN works.
http://192.87.107.12/eva/uk/texts/wp41.pdf 1999 report, states (on "simple photographs") that "The situation is likely to vary from country to country." and indicates that this is indeed due to the interpretation of "the author’s own intellectual creation reflecting his personality" in 93/98/EEC.
http://www.ulapland.fi/includes/file_download.asp?deptid=19687&fileid=9653&file=20061120132536.pdf&pdf=1 Koivuuma slides: Copyright Council of Finland: Finland has a high threshold of originality for photos (interpretation of "individual creation" in 93/98/EEC).
http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/oakley/index.html#toc U.S. overview from 1990; a bit dated, but still good.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_00000301----000-notes.html Revision notes on 17 USC 301
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcopyright1.htm Straight Dope on Copyright

ASCAP - URAA restorations Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Khachaturian
Undated commentary by Gavrilov #6, fourth bullet mentions the countries that had bilateral copyright treaties with the USSR before 1995
Yugoslavia:
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia member of the Berne Convention since 1930! [1]
- Signed the Berne Convention prior to 1968, [2] ratified 1975, entry in force: September 2, 1975. [3]
- Apparently UCC member since May 11, 1966. Circular 38a
- Croatian old laws, Croatia joined berne Convention on Oct 8, 1991. 2003 law at Unesco.

Copyright term for images in Canada. Bottom line: if created before January 1, 1949, the image is in the PD in Canada. Unsure about its status in the U.S., probably also PD if created before 1946.
Copyright FAQ from CENDI (U.S.)
Copyright terms in Germany
Effect of EU directive: previously expired copyrights may become effective again (Spain has 80 years p.m.a. since 1879). More detailed discussion.
High-quality blog on copyright issues (U.S.)
urecht is a high-quality German mailing list on copyright issues. Unfortunately not searchable, and browse access is by week only.