On 01/16/12 8:10 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 16 January 2012 14:08, Federico Leva (Nemo)<nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> WMIT is interested, too, because the board has decided to move the >>> semi-free and PD-Italy content hosted on biblioteca.wikimedia.it to >>> wikilivres and we'd like Canada to be still able to host it... >> PD-Italy is broader than PD-Canada - would Wikilivres be able to? > Basically, WM-IT hosts a small library with works of Italian authors > which are PD in Italy but not in the US. Basically, in Italy it's PD > 70 years after the author's death, but the works were published after > 1923, so they are still (c) in the US. The idea is to avoid > duplicating efforts when wikilivres is already there. > Cruccone > Much to the dismay of the copyright industry Canadian copyrights for 50 years after the author's death. Amazingly, despite having a conservative government there is broad support for the currently pending changes to the Copyright Act, except in one key area. The changes would, among other things, expand fair dealing and distinguish between commercial and non-commercial infringement. The penalties for non-commercial infringement would be significantly lower. The one area of raging controversy has to do with digital rights managements (DRM). This would make it illegal to break digital locks even when the purpose for doing so has nothing to do with copyright infringement. In the near foreseeable future this is not likely to affect Wikilivres to any significant extent.
Negotiations have started on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, mostly at the behest of the United States. This would cover a broad range of trade issues to the benefit of US industry. Patents and copyrights are only a part of it. Canada has not heretofore been a party to these negotiations, but the government wants to join. Most recently, the US wants to see Canadian law changed to remove different irritants relating to intellectual property before it gives its consent to join the talks. See http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6243/125/#comments I don't see any clear direction developing on TPP for quite some time. Towards this the government has already dissolved the Canadian Wheat Board (a grain marketing consortium) but that is facing court challenges. How much controversy can they withstand? Ray _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
