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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