[Advocacy Advisors] FYI - Creative Commons statement on copyright reform

Thu Oct 17 15:28:09 UTC 2013

All these are good examples. I would also like to add some:

- rules for free use of images of copyrighted product packaging (free use
of book/CD/DVD covers, etc might be included here or separate)
- some kind of clear rules for to what extent one has to rework a work to
create a new, derivative work (at which point do new, separate rights for
derivative works rise? this would help a bit with museums and archives
claiming copyright on photos etc of their contents, like The Israel Museum
claiming copyright on their images of Dead Sea Scrolls or The Smithsonian
Institute on some high-quality, digitally cleansed images)
- clear rules on what constitutes mass production and hence is not covered
by copyright (mostly, this concerns product design and architecture)
- I'd very much like an international agreement to put things like money,
postage stamps, etc entirely out of copyright
- some international agreement on more specific issues concerning countries
with "interrupted history" (like the whole former Socialist block, but
there are certainly many other examples): the status of works produced
under occupation by state agencies, or by the juridical persons who ceased
to exist (can author of an encyclopedia article published in 1939 claim any
rights if all rights originally belonged to the publisher discontinued in
1940? which juridical persons can or can't claim to inherit the rights of
such a publisher?)
- the terms for media channels could be shorter than for other kinds of
works (most media outlets do not earn money from their editions published
30 years ago, but historical media is an important part of a society's
public memory)

Raul
WMEE

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi, Bea!
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Beatriz Busaniche <bea at vialibre.org.ar>wrote:
>
>>
>> In countries where we have no Freedom of Panorama, like Argentina and
>> Uruguay, Copyright Reform is really needed for projects like Commons.
>
>
> What else would be on our copyright reform wishlist? Maybe putting
> together a list of such things would make for a good meta page? I can think
> offhand of:
>
> - FOP
> - orphan works reform (if done correctly, could be useful for Wikibooks)
> - term reform/limitation (i.e., fighting the next wave of term extensions)
> - standardized limitations and exceptions:
> http://infojustice.org/flexible-use (possibly this approach is too vague
> to be useful for us)
>
> I think Dimi had a list somewhere too?
>
> Luis
>
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