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July 3

(Exhaustive) public domain resource

I know Wikipedia has an article on List of films in the public domain in the United States, but these just encompass the most notable ones. Where can I find a very extensive list? Theskinnytypist (talk) 00:28, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The very first line of that article (after the lead / Table of Contents) reads: "There is no official list of films (or other works) in the public domain. It is difficult to determine the public domain status of a film because it can incorporate any or all of the following copyrightable elements ...". Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:21, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes as Joseph says, there is no exhaustive list. But these archives are more extensive than our list: Library of Congress [1], and archive.org [2]. SemanticMantis (talk) 16:47, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be careful about trusting archive.org on everything though; copyvios do get through. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:49, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2014 World Cup metrics question

Toward the end of regulation time on the USA v. Belgium game, a US player came out and was replaced, and a statistic was displayed as 9.33 km, and the average was something like 8.4 km. If km has the usual meaning, that would be 46 complete runs up and down the pitch, because the length of the pitch is 100 metres. That is a lot of runs up and down the pitch in less than 90 minutes. Did that refer to the distance run up and down the pitch during that game, or during the four games? Also, does someone really track the distance run up and down the pitch by each of the ten players on a team? I know that American sports fans are metrics-crazy, but is there really the technology to track distance run up and down the pitch by each player? Robert McClenon (talk) 16:37, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that sounds like a pretty normal distance to cover, especially if the player was a midfielder. As for the technology, most likely they will be using image analysis of the footage during the game, as they did during the previous world cup: company responsible. Also, more about the technology: the WSJ. 82.21.7.184 (talk) 17:04, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The player was Graham Zusi, by the way. You can view his individual statistics for that game by going to this FIFA page and then selecting "19 ZUSI" in the righthand drop-down box (titled "Tactical line-up"). Apart from "distance covered" (9386 m) and other stats, it gives you an image of the field highlighting his most frequent locations during the game, allows you to compare his stats with that of opponent players on a radar chart, etc. ---Sluzzelin talk 17:28, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]