On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:12 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> On 29 October 2012 13:39, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If the question is indiscreet/offtopic forgive me and ignore it/more it >>> another list, but: what are Romney's views on copyright? >>> I read on today's Financial Times Europe (p. 4) that he has a couple >>> millions dollars invested on Hollywood funds, so is it pessimistic to say >>> that he must hold horrible positions on copyright? >> >> Both parties appear to strongly support the present regime. > > I'm not sure this is totally fair. > > I think the White House has somewhat embraced Creative Commons for certain > works and there's some good work going on at <http://www.data.gov>. > > Of course, all works of the United States federal government done by federal > employees are automatically public domain, so in many ways, the U.S. > government is way ahead of the curve on this issue. ;-)
And though it's not directly tied to the White House, several US agencies have made good progress on copyright and open access initiatives during the last four years; I'm thinking of, for instance, the NIH deposit mandate and NSF data sharing rules. And I think we are all familiar with the recent stellar work of the National Archives :) Obama did speak out against SOPA in the end, as well. In general I think there is overall friendliness towards open access and open licensing in this government, more so than we've seen in the past, if not yet towards real copyright reform -- which as a matter of law would take Congress as well as the White House to agree anyway. -- phoebe _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
