For some unexplained reasons, the whole contents of my message is not showing at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-December/070807.html . Here is another copy again:
Le 12 décembre 2011 17:14, Teofilo <[email protected]> a écrit : > Le 11 décembre 2011 19:02, MZMcBride <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
