Furthermore there seems to be videos presented as evidence. These seem to have "© 2009-2010 BSkyB, the BBC and ITN. All Rights Reserved" which needs to be released with a free licensed as well, particularly sessions by The Iraq Inquiry which has witness accounts.
-- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) On 8 July 2016 at 02:51, とある白い猫 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > It can be argued that the current copyright obfuscates the general > public's access to the report. I feel it is in the public's best interest > to have this monolith of documentation on a more user friendly venue such > as Wikisource where it can be more manageable and digestible. > > I do feel that any single email from us would be promptly ignored as there > probably is a large volume of emails. It may be prudent to either start a > petition (for the Parliament) or ask a few MPs to raise the copyright issue > in the Parliament. > > I may be late to the game but I do have a few copyright concerns which may > have been already addressed. I would most sincerely apologize if there is > duplication. > > I have identified a number of copyright issues with the report. > > First of, the websites terms and conditions do not explicitly release the > works under a free license.[1] It seems to be more concerned with > misrepresentation than commercial considerations. This implies authors > could be persuaded to release their work under a free license. For the > purpose of our use, the site should explicitly mention a free license. > > Moreover it mentions BSkyB, BBC and ITN as copyright holders of some of > the documents. Any migration to Wikisource must filter out such content.[1] > > Lastly there are a number of now declassified documents that provide vital > evidence to reinforce the reports findings, these too need to be freely > licensed. > > -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) > > [1] http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/terms-conditions/ >
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