On English wikisource we use the absence of case law regarding foriegned government and judicial documents as sufficient justification for all these being PD in the US.
See http://enws.org/Template:PD-GovEdict<http://enws.org/Template:PDGovEdict> Most countries explicitly refuse copyright on these works. It would be good to have a universal declararion that these works are PD worldwide. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 18, 2012 9:01 PM, "Samuel Klein" <[email protected]> wrote: > A lovely exercise. I would put freedom and accessibility of legal > documents, from government standards to case law, high on that list. > Starting in larger countries where there is already motion to make this > happen. SJ > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Michael Snow <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 9/17/2012 5:22 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: >> >> Personally, I would prefer that people pursue freedom of panorama before >> we pursue "freedom of deep space objects". The later I would put pretty far >> down the priority list, actually. How about the following agenda: >> >> 1. Freedom of orphaned works >> 2. Freedom of panorama in U.S. >> 3. Get Library of Congress to digitize all U.S. copyright records >> 4. Get U.S. to apply rule of the shorter term >> 5. Get U.K. to officially kill sweat of the brow >> 6. Repeal database rights in EU >> 7. Repeal Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act >> 8. Fix absurd copyright terms in Mexico >> 9. Get works by U.S. states added to public domain >> 10. Freedom of deep space objects >> .... >> 99. Profit >> >> I'd probably use a different order, but that would be quibbling. I think >> just the thought of prioritizing like this is a good exercise, and would >> love to hear how other people stack up these priorities. It's an >> interesting challenge to balance which of these ideas would have the most >> impact with which are the most realistically achievable in the near future. >> >> --Michael Snow >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> >> > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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