On 5 March 2011 12:29, Teofilo <teofilow...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ?
Well the UK is releasing stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data_in_the_UK I for one never thought we would get this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ordnance_Survey_1-250000_-_TF.jpg > My view is that they aren't. They are unnecessarily dry, unhuman, > personality-rights-moral-rights aggressive, > uploader-unfriendly-downloader-friendly. It's legal text. The first two are unavoidable. The licences tend not to touch personality-rights one way or the other and moral-rights tend to conflict with how common law thinks contract law should work. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
