Thanks for sharing David. This is very good to know about and is on an issue that I have some strong feelings about.
Sent from my iPhone On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:14 PM, David Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Some interesting discussion here for those of you who are interested > in copyrights and Wikimedia. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Michael Maggs <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:44 PM > Subject: [Chapters] New Commons RFC on changing the Precautionary > principle to tackle the URAA problem > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]>, > Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]>, > [email protected], [email protected] > > > I have made a proposal to relax the scope of the Commons so-called > Precautionary principle to allow the site to host more of the locally > public domain files that are being deleted because of the US URAA law, > and also to keep more photos that have freedom of panorama in their > home country but which might (or might not) be copyright-protected in > the US. > > This proposal comes out of an extremely long and complicated argument > about copyright, which you don't necessarily need to get into, but it > is an attempt to allow Commons to host more media files while at the > same time ensuring that the site remains fully legal under US law. We > can legally take a much more nuanced position than 'Definitely Free' > or 'Definitely Unfree', which is pretty much what we do at present. > > Some editors have suggested ignoring US law, which the WMF simply > cannot allow to happen, and this is an attempt to allow us to keep > more non-US Public Domain material while still remaining on the right > side of US law. > > Put simply, do you agree that Commons should aim to host more files > that are public domain in their home country even if they *might* > still be copyright-protected in the US? > > Please contribute here: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Review_of_Precautionary_principle > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Chapters mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/chapters > > > -- > David Richfield > [[:en:User:Slashme]] > +49 176 72663368 > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
