For several months DP Canada was running in limited operation. On December 1, 2007 they went “live” again.
DP Canada is dedicated to;
Preserving Canadiana one page at a time
Taking advanatge of Canada’s more liberal copyright laws to ensure public access to books in the Public Domain in Canada.
PGC presented the first DP Canada French language title on December 9, 2007: Jacques Cartier's account of his 1534 voyage to Canada.The first English language title appeared on Decembr 12, 2007: Walter de la Mare's children's story "The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire".
“Acting without a vote, the Assembly, also recognizing that the United Nations pursues multilingualism as a means of promoting, protecting and preserving diversity of languages and cultures globally, emphasized the paramount importance of the equality of the Organization’s six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).”
Note the lack of languages from India and Africa, but the inclusion of previous world powers of Spain, France, and Russia, and only one currently rising superpower, China.
This reflects a greater concern with political power than serving the actual general world population, where India, Indonesia, Africa, Pakistan, etc., reflect some one third of the entire world population without their languages in the official representation of the United Nations.
General Assembly
GA/10592
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Sixty-first General Assembly
Plenary
96th Meeting (PM)
GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS 2008 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LANGUAGES, IN EFFORT TO PROMOTE UNITY IN DIVERSITY, GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING
The General Assembly this afternoon, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Languages.
Acting without a vote, the Assembly, also recognizing that the United Nations pursues multilingualism as a means of promoting, protecting and preserving diversity of languages and cultures globally, emphasized the paramount importance of the equality of the Organization’s six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).
pgweekly_2007_12_19.txt
The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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NEWS HEADLINES
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Our automated listing showed 79 new eBooks [usually a bit over] and
at least one came in from PG of Australia, so 80 for total.
I will forward the PG of Canada Newsletters.
Happy Holidays!!!!!!!
Micahel
pgweekly_2007_12_12.txt
The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, December 12, 2007
****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971****
http://www.gutenberg.org
NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New.
Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing.
NEWS HEADLINES
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From Wednesday to Wednesday we received 89 in our report of automated
listings and 2 more from PG Australia.
The third PGAU listing was to add an HTML to the second.
I should perhaps add that Canadian copyright is in news reports
these days as being under attack from the power players in world
copyright, and is likely to fall to an outside economic warfare
power in the next few years.
Probably in a quite similar way as Australian copyright did just
a few year ago. . . .