[Wikimedia-l] Legalised Piracy
Very interesting things happening in Antigua and the US: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21247683 Essentially, the World Trade Organization (WTO) have ruled that the islands have the right to suspend US intellectual property rights. It all stems from a trade dispute in 2003, where the US effectively banned electronic interstate gambling, which in turn damaged Antigua's economy. This has led to one thing and another, and ...on Monday the WTO's dispute settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies, music, games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US copyright and trademark claims. I'm not sure what this means for the movement - I'm sure there will be a long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of events in IP law. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Legalised Piracy
Le 2013-01-30 13:12, Richard Symonds a écrit : Very interesting things happening in Antigua and the US: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21247683 Essentially, the World Trade Organization (WTO) have ruled that the islands have the right to suspend US intellectual property rights. It all stems from a trade dispute in 2003, where the US effectively banned electronic interstate gambling, which in turn damaged Antigua's economy. This has led to one thing and another, and ...on Monday the WTO's dispute settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies, music, games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US copyright and trademark claims. Relevant parts on limits are: It later agreed a compensation packages with other WTO members, but Antigua held out demanding $3.44bn (£2.2bn) of compensation a year. In 2007 the WTO awarded it the right to waive intellectual property rights worth up to the smaller sum of $21m a year. On Monday the WTO's dispute settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies, music, games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US copyright and trademark claim I wonder how they will evaluate things. I'm not sure what this means for the movement - I'm sure there will be a long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of events in IP law. Well, on the one hand wikimedia host works in US, on the other hand, how many works/articles hosted by wikimedia whom all authors are US citizens can you find? As I understand it, they can't ignore international copyrights. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Legalised Piracy
On 30 January 2013 12:12, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Very interesting things happening in Antigua and the US: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21247683 Essentially, the World Trade Organization (WTO) have ruled that the islands have the right to suspend US intellectual property rights. It all stems from a trade dispute in 2003, where the US effectively banned electronic interstate gambling, which in turn damaged Antigua's economy. This has led to one thing and another, and ...on Monday the WTO's dispute settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies, music, games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US copyright and trademark claims. I'm not sure what this means for the movement - I'm sure there will be a long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of events in IP law. I believe that option has always been on the WTO's list of remedies. It has no way to force sovereign countries to pay anything, so this kind of thing is the only way it can enforce the rules. I'm not sure how many times it has used that particular power. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] COI versus OUTING
My advice would definitely be to email functionarie...@lists.wikimedia.org. Keeping them in the loop is very, very helpful. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 27 January 2013 23:43, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: This happens all the time. It sounds like their attempt to alter the content was thwarted. If not, alert a few admins privately, or send more specific info to the functionaries-en mailing list so they can keep a watchful eye on the articles in question. And talk to the offender and explain what they did contravenes Wikipedia guidelines. In my opinion you should report it to an ethics board privately, if you believe they did (intend to) break the industries ethical guidelines. Even if they acted improperly, by intimidating someone, you need to follow appropriate protocols. Two wrongs dont make a right. It sounds like you can inform press without breaking any confidences. Tell them the account name or IP and let them independently guess who it is. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Jan 22, 2013 12:09 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: A not really hypothetical question: Let say one is the director of marketing at a 16 billion dollar company and decides to come to Wikipedia in an attempt to alter its coverage of one of your companies key products (which has been hit fairly hard lately by the evidence). One also invites 50 of your best friends (most of which are on your pay role to join you in this effort). Let say you are trying to do it anonymously but both you and your associates send out a whole bunch of intimidating emails to a long standing editor. Than this long standing editor without any real difficulty figures out who you are (as you sort of did email him). You than vanish from Wikipedia. What if this long standing editor decided to either hand the story over to the press or write something up for publication in a peer review journal as said editor does not stand for intimidation easily? And this long standing editor believes that the world / patients might be better off if this behavior become more widely known. How would the Wikimedia community apply the above two policies / guidelines (WP:COI and WP:OUTING)? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Legalised Piracy
I'm not sure what this means for the movement - I'm sure there will be a long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of events in IP law. Well, on the one hand wikimedia host works in US, on the other hand, how many works/articles hosted by wikimedia whom all authors are US citizens can you find? As I understand it, they can't ignore international copyrights. Well, we have this problem that all files we use on Commons have to be free in both the country of origin (typically 70 years since the death of the author) and in the US (typically 95 years since creation if after 1923). This means that many of the things created in the 1920s and the 1930s which would be free or soon-to-be-free in the country of origin are still unfree in the US. In this sense, lifting the limitation that the file should still be free in the US would help. But I guess we are not going to relocate the servers to Antigua anyway. Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))
Andreas Kolbe, 10/01/2013 19:42: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Andreas Kolbe, 10/01/2013 19:21: Open these two pages: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaFR.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm Each has four bar charts with yellow bars. Ignore the top two charts. Focus on the third and fourth charts with yellow bars. Random fluctuations aside, the ones for French show a consistent upward trend. They don't. Are you willing to concede that they look *markedly* different from the English ones, and don't show a clear downward trend starting in 2007, as the English ones do? :)) Sure, I am: en.wiki is the one in the worst conditions. However, any hypothesis explaining decline (or proposing corrections) only for en.wiki and not for all the other wikis (which similarly experienced it) is IMHO useless. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 05 -- 28 January 2013
In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention; Sue Gardner's op-ed; Women of Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/In_the_media News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/News_and_notes Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/Recent_research Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/Discussion_report WikiProject report: Checkmate! â WikiProject Chess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/WikiProject_report Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/Featured_content Arbitration report: ''Doncram'' continues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/Arbitration_report Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-28 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] WMF Board Agenda (Draft)
Please find below the draft WMF board agenda for the upcoming meetings on January 31-February 2, 2013. *== Thursday, January 31, 2013 == '''18:00 - 19:00''' - Governance Committee Meeting == Friday, February 1, 2013 == '''9:00 - 9:10''' - Greetings and Introductions '''9:10 - 10:00''' - Housekeeping * Affiliations Committee Charter (technical correction only) * Pledge of Personal Commitment (annual signing) * Discussion on a proposed Duty of Loyalty Policy for the Board (consisting of summary of existing duty of loyalty responsibilities) '''10:15 -12:15''' - Presentation on 2012-13 Year-to-Date and Planning for 2013-14 (Part I) '''12:15-14:00''' - ''Lunch'' '''14:00 - 15:30''' - Presentation on 2012-13 Year-to-Date and Planning for 2013-14 (Part II) '''15:30 - 16:00''' - Discussion on Board Term Limits '''16:15 - 16:45''' - Legal Presentation == Saturday, February 2, 2013 == '''9:00 - 11:00''' - Presentation on 2012-13 Year-to-Date and Planning for 2013-14 (Part III) '''11:15 - 12:15''' - Discussion on Affiliations Committee and WCA (Part I) '''12:15 - 13:15''' - ''Lunch'' '''13:15 - 14:15''' - Discussion on Affiliations Committee and WCA (Part II) '''14:15 - 14:30''' - Advisory Board: Term Renewals '''14:30 - 15:15''' - 2013 Board Agenda / Extend Executive Session '''15:30 - 16:30''' - Executive Session * -- Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
