Since the Ideascale site is now closed, I'll post my latest big idea here: One of the biggest gripes that Wikimedians and other "open content" fans have had in recent years is the issue of claiming copyright over retouched and/or digitised versions of public domain content. Since we would probably not want to determine the copyright status of such items via an NPG-style lawsuit, should we be engaging with politicians to develop clearer copyright laws?
Obviously this would require further conversation with the GLAM sector, who would generally be on the side of having such things be copyrightable, but at least if the copyright status of digitised replicas of PD works was legislatively determined then we would all know where we stood with the law rather than the iffy case of "We claim it's PD but if it came to court the judge could swing the other way" we have now. CM _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
