Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting story in today's press

2013-11-12 Thread Liam Wyatt
Aloha from Hawaii! I'm at an Internet cafe so must be brief. I too would like to see us 'weigh in' on the matter of the copyright review and as some of you may recall I made a submission to the initial round myself (specifically relating to faithful reproductions of 2D PD artworks). I would be ve

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting story in today's press

2013-11-12 Thread Kimberlee Weatherall
Hi guys, Great! No doubt you're in touch with Trish at the ADA, but I've forwarded this on to her as well for coordination purposes. Kim KIMBERLEE WEATHERALL | Associate Professor Faculty of Law THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0478 | F +61 2 9351 0200 | M +61 403 762 544 From: wikimed

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting story in today's press

2013-11-12 Thread Tony Souter
Producing a position paper that the ADA can use would be one of the most significant things the chapter ever did. Assistance from other Wikimedians might be forthcoming if messages are posted (by the committee) on mailing lists asking for advice after a draft is written. Some of Australia's cop

[Wikimediaau-l] My upcoming retirement as Wikimedia Australia President

2013-11-12 Thread Craig Franklin
Hi All, Now that the cat is out of the bag, I might as well confirm that I will NOT be running for President this year. Over the past three years, my employers have been extremely generous in giving me time off at short notice to attend to Wikimedia Australia related things - running workshops, a

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting story in today's press

2013-11-12 Thread Steve Zhang
I think we should get behind this, definitely. not too sure what we can do but we should do whatever we can. On 12/11/2013 7:28 PM, "Andrew Owens" wrote: > > http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/why-creating-memes-is-illegal-in-australia/story-fnjwmwrh-1226758121774 > > The Australian Digita

[Wikimediaau-l] Interesting story in today's press

2013-11-12 Thread Andrew Owens
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/why-creating-memes-is-illegal-in-australia/story-fnjwmwrh-1226758121774 The Australian Digital Alliance is pushing for a fair use amendment to the Copyright Act. Is there anything WMAu and its supporters can do to get on board with it? kindest regards Andr