I forgot humiliate. Sorry. Ryan Kaldari
On 12/12/11 8:14 AM, Teofilo wrote: > Le 11 décembre 2011 19:02, MZMcBride<z...@mzmcbride.com> a écrit : >> Hi. >> >> The "Terms of use" rewrite is starting to wind down. The current draft is >> here:<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use>. > From the point of view of Continental Europe, where creators enjoy > advanced copyright laws which protect their attribution right, I think > this implementation of the - creator belittling - US copyright law on > Wikimedia projects is a disgrace. What the licensing section of this > draft terms of use is saying is that the WMF simply disregards the > attribution rights which are granted by law in their countries. It is > humiliating. > > By the clever use of attribution licenses, there was a way to > conciliate continental European laws and US or British laws. The WMF > decides not to do so, and to stubbornly push the US-copyright law > point of view. It is a pity. > > Perhaps the WMF should not have relied on a US lawyer alone. Perhaps a > team associating a US lawyer with a continental Europe lawyer would > have been better. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
