Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Jens Best <[email protected]> wrote:
> I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the > "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one aspect of > this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible focus > which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects? a more precise translation of Schrankenregeln is "limitations and exceptions" in copyright. EU member states can implement exceptions listed in the InfoSoc Directive, they are not allowed to implement exceptions not listed there. The current German government has announced to adjust certain exceptions dealing with education. Other than that, the introduction of a fair use clause in German copyright would require some legislation on the EU level* Mathias * (Martin Senftleben is slightly more optimistic here http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959554) _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
