Hi Steve, I'm admittedly not a lawyer, but my understanding is that doesn't have to be ported.
And its a great thing you're not a lawyer, nor am I, and I don't think this topic should need one either... The thing I was trying to point out about Public Domain is that it is difficult for people outside the US to contribute works to PD if their country does not have something like PD. Increasingly it seems, the Public of the United States is the Public for us all... and so of course, we all go ahead and give it to the PD as a matter of principle, and if we're loading works to US based projects like Archive.org, then I suppose we are giving our work to the US Public in the good faith. As far as I know, New Zealand, Australia and Canada do not have something called a Public Domain for their jurisdictions, and so PD is essentially a US collection... not to mention copyright these days is essentially a US (and its coalitions of the willing) thingy, spreading through US trade "negotiations" to protect US cultural products. Someday, the US will simply mean us. On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Randy Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I think that Nadia has raised an important point about the distinction > between what the policy says; and what are the appropriate actions. Clearly, > we have to do a better job of explaining things.For the Newbie, alot of this > is hard to understand. > > When people are looking at supplying their materials, unless they are open > source values to begin with it's a hard sell. When folks spend time in the > community (and are open source) and then they learn about our collective > mission to create free and open education + all of the wonderful things > we've got going - including wiki-to-pdf; collaborative video editing and > wiki-publishing, then the reasoning behind CC-BY-SA makes eminent sense. > > - Randy > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Steve Foerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> Randy wrote: >> >> << Is there an FAQ about these specific questions, or shall we create >> one? >> >> >> Well, there's this: >> >> http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Licensing_Policy >> >> That's not a FAQ, that's a start of a policy that I put together a >> while back. At this point, though I think completion will have to >> wait for the WE Council to be elected. >> >> -=Steve=- >> >> > > > -- > ________________ > Randy Fisher - Facilitating Change, Connections and Collaboration to > Improve Performance. > * Engaging People in Teams, Communities and Organizations....and > WikiEducator! > > + 1 604.684.2275 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.wikieducator.org > http://www.wikieductator.org/Community_Media > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher > > > Skype: wikirandy > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
