Gracias Patricio > Dear friends: > > There's a response from the Board of Trustees in > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Israel/Letter_to_the_BoT_regarding_URAA#Response_from_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees > > Regards, > > Patricio > > 2014-02-20 2:15 GMT-03:00 Yael Meron <[email protected]>: >> Hi Santiago, >> >> Thank you for your support. >> We hope this would bring stronger advocacy actions by the WMF as well as >> practical solutions for the Wikimedia projects. >> >> Regards, >> >> Yael Meron >> Wikimedia Israel >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Santi Navarro < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello. Wikimedia Spain members wrote an open letter to BoT where we >>> show >>> our position about the URAA and we support Wikimedia Israel. The letter >>> says: >>> >>> ================== >>> >>> We, the members of Wikimedia España, the chapter of the Wikimedia >>> movement >>> in Spain, support the concerns expressed by our fellow Wikimedia Israel >>> and other places around the World about the legal norm known as URAA. >>> That >>> norm, based on the legal status quo, has the effect of extending the >>> copyright of cultural works for periods even longer than those already >>> in >>> force. >>> >>> We do not object in any way to the right of people to live out of the >>> results of their work, be it in manufacturing, service industries, >>> agriculture or any other human activity, but those works form the core >>> of >>> culture as the sum of human knowledge, and their use by all Mankind has >>> to >>> be protected too. While it is entirely understandable that painters, >>> writers or photographers have the right to sustain themselves with >>> their >>> works, it is not reasonable that people who did not author anything >>> should >>> be allowed to make money out of the works of people who died fifty, >>> seventy-five or even hundred years before. >>> >>> Furthermore it has to be taken into account that under the excuse of >>> protecting the authors' rights, an unduly burden has been charged on >>> the >>> users of works of unknown authors, anonymous works or the ones of >>> people >>> who simply did not intend to claim any right at any time at all. The >>> Uruguay Round Agreements were negotiated by 123 countries. Somebody who >>> came across some anonymous work that could be dated at anytime in the >>> last >>> century, could be required to find a negotiator among the more than >>> seven >>> billion people on Earth, since, otherwise, he/she could be violating >>> some >>> state copyright law. >>> >>> Another aspect that URAA does not pay attention to is the fact that >>> many >>> works remain unattended. When talking about books, it means that they >>> are >>> not reprinted and are not available anymore. But it does not mean that >>> somebody could just reprint them in order to make them known to the >>> public. In that way people can neither buy copies of works nor make >>> them >>> themselves. Who is profiting by that? In other cases, photographs, >>> pictures, rolls of film, etc., just sit rotting -literally in some >>> cases- >>> in storerooms, not only forgotten, also forbidden. Is there any benefit >>> from it? >>> >>> So, in spite of all legal terms, we, the Wikimedians from Spain, >>> support >>> not just our Israeli companions, but the right of all the Human Race to >>> have a chance to enjoy what has been done by authors. And so we expect >>> the >>> Wikimedia Foundation, as a provider of free knowledge sources, will do >>> their best and fight for the shortest copyright terms possible, >>> restricted >>> as closely as possible to the author's lifetime. >>> >>> Yours sincerely, >>> >>> Wikimedia Spain >>> >>> ==================== >>> >>> *Wikimedia España Blog >>> >>> http://blog.wikimedia.es/2014/02/postura-de-wikimedia-espana-sobre-la.html >>> >>> *On Meta in different languages: >>> >>> >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/Letter_to_the_BoT_regarding_URAA >>> >>> We encourage you to create a debate about it and work for free >>> knowledge. >>> >>> Thank you and regards >>> >>> -- >>> Santiago Navarro >>> Wikimedia España >>> http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Patricio Lorente > Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar > Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
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