Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works

2012-01-22 Thread wheredevelsdare
FYI: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#URAA_affirmed_by_US_Supreme_Court_-_deletion_request_opened Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:50:36 +0530 From: jayanta...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supreme Court Says Congress May

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works

2012-01-22 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
This is not good. On one side we are thinking for lobbying for Government works to be moved to public domain in India.. on another side this is happening... -TC On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: FYI:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works

2012-01-22 Thread Vickram Crishna
To be utterly frank, we cannot continue to think that we must follow the example of the west. As Wikimedians in India, we have a particular point of view about copyright, in this case of works created using public money. Whether or not the USA decides to prevent similar works from being openly