2009/10/27 Andrew Turvey <[email protected]>: > - Lots of talk from big business interests saying there is a "narrow > legislative window of opportunity" at the moment (i.e. before the next > general election)
Given the spectacular series of delays on updating / UK copyright law they may have a point. > - For a "creative" conference focussing on new technologies it was > remarkably lacking in opportunities for delegates to participate in asking > questions etc - format is largely a panel discussing the issue among > themselves. Still we need to know what some of the players are thinking. > - SIon Simon, another politician present, mentioned that the copyright > debate is highly polarised between the industry and free copyright > advocates, both sides are deaf to the other and they need to engage. Despite > this the discussions on copyright have been largely one sided, unbalanced, > with some fairly extreme language used - "copyright warriors", "green ink > brigade". "a generation of stealing" etc. Going by the copyright arguments on wikipedia that is unsurprising. Who was "copyright warriors" aimed at? > > - David Rowan (WiredUK): "Government should free data - postcodes, ordinance > survey" Any mention of United Kingdom Hydrographic Office? > > - "obscurity for some artists is a bigger challenge than piracy" > > - "we need a new settlement to liberate archived rights" archived rights? > > - "we should have extended collective licensing" > Potential danger there. Some forms of collective licensing can create issues for free licenses. > - "businesses spend huge effort in clearing licenses - need more effective > ways of clearing large numbers of rights holders" That risks meaning "disenfranchise small copyright holders". > - "copyright switches should be turned to "on" by default rather than "off"" > ? > - "working on a new digital license to allow museums to publish in-copyright > articles" Driven by the Anthony Blunt thing? > - "licensing details should be included in the metadata" In theory yes but a lot of people strip out metadata and not all file formats support it that well. It would make the life of commons admins less hard though. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
