The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy" (1) .
In ยง3.4. They talk about the possibility to adapt copyright law so that user-created contents would become easier, and they ask to send them feedback by 30 November 2008 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I thought it would be kind of cool if the foundation or the individual european chapters would use this opportunity to give them some hints of what a Wikipedia-friendly copyright law/directive should look like, or a few concrete examples of the worries we are having in present time with the current laws. In particular it should be stressed how laws in some country lacking a "fair use" restriction for pictures and/or without a "panorama freedom" are cumbersome. Non copyright issues like the ltalian law on cultural goods should also be mentioned. I am sending the same message on the village pump on Commons : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#European_Commission_Green_Paper_-_Copyright_in_the_Knowledge_Economy (1) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0466:FIN:EN:HTML (English) Other languages are available here : http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52008DC0466:FR:NOT _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
