BTW, why we have separate policies for Commons and Wikipedia? I just noticed that photographs deleted from Common per "not free in source country" are restored by our own (Commons) admins in English Wikipedia.
Jee On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 5:18 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 June 2014 12:21, matanya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Commons licensing policy determines media should be free in source > > country and in US. I want to propose We change the policy to be: "free > > in source country" only, and to cope with US laws where the servers are > > hosted found a "DMCA take down notice" Team in OTRS, that will handle > > requests to remove Items that are non-free in the US after verifying > > proper grounds for the claim. > > > > This approach to copyright will prevent issues like URAA issues, shorter > > term issues and restored copyright issues. > > > > No it it won't. UK restored a bunch of copyrights when EU went life+70 > > > > > > > It will enrich commons with many files that are FREE (mostly PD) in > > source country, but not on commons due to US laws. Unless the copyright > > holder (mostly Gov's and archives) will not request removal, and they > > won't since they released the media, we will be using those files. > > > > If the government held the copyright then you contact them and ask them > about their position on potential overseas copyrights. > > > > I'm not a lawyer, so I probably missed most of the legal implication, > > But I do volunteer to found and lead the team, if this idea is accepted > > and commons community would want this policy change. I'm seeking input > > from copyright experienced users and lawyers, before i start an official > > policy change on commons. > > > > The main problem that you hit is that "free in source country and in US" > is a pretty good proxy for "free pretty much anywhere" (well unless the > source country is the US but that's a separate problem). For example > depending on how you read Saudi law there are a bunch of photos that are > free in Saudi Arabia and pretty much nowhere else (Switzerland perhaps) but > unless our resuser know their way around over 100 copyright systems they > probably aren't going to know that. Thus from a reuse POV commons goes from > being useful (as long as you allow for US weirdness) to being (from a > copyright perspective) a radioactive mess. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
