Mexico switched from PD to CC-BY-NC-ND in 2006 (1) Argentina from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC some time in 2009-2011 (2) Brazil removed CC-BY-SA altogether from the culture ministry website in early 2011, in a context where the ministry is planning to reform the copyright law (3)
Are our definition and our practices around free culture attractive enough for democratically elected governments ? My view is that they aren't. They are unnecessarily dry, unhuman, personality-rights-moral-rights aggressive, uploader-unfriendly-downloader-friendly. (1) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Mexico-NIP (2) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing/Archive_32#Template:CC-AR-Presidency (3) http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/02/08/inside-views-brazils-copyright-reform-schizophrenia/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20ip-watch%20%28Intellectual%20Property%20Watch%29 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
