[Advocacy Advisors] EU to tackle copyright reform

Fri Dec 7 02:49:59 UTC 2012

My hunch is that public domain would be the easiest to convey, i.e. 
"government works should be exempt from copyright". It also has the 
advantage that you can point to U.S. law as an example. Wikimedia Israel 
pursued the free-license route, but of course someone threw in the 
non-commercial clause at the last minute, effectively undercutting the 
entire effort.

Ryan Kaldari
Wikimedia Foundation

On 12/6/12 6:02 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:
> Hey Ryan,
>
> no there was no talk about that, but it's top on my proposals list. I 
> believe that such a thing simply has the chance to be accepted. The EU 
> right now allows reuse with citations as a general rule, but there 
> might be exceptions in each agency and since they don't use a specific 
> license it can be very confusing to read through the copyright 
> statements.
>
> I am just not sure whether it would be better to propose PD or CC-by 
> or just say "free-license".
>
> Dimi
>
> 2012/12/7 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org 
> <mailto:rkaldari at wikimedia.org>>
>
>     Was there any discussion of free-licensing government-created
>     works? This seems like a worthy objective that doesn't adversely
>     affect any commercial interests (which is the main roadblock to
>     most copyright reform).
>
>     Ryan Kaldari
>     Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
>
>
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