Re: [Foundation-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia

2010-11-10 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On 11/11/2010 07:31 AM, Sue Gardner wrote: >> * Ideally, they would be stories of people who >> pre-exposure-to-Wikipedia would have had circumscribed access to >> information. Because they grew up in a small town with no library, >> becau

Re: [Foundation-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia

2010-11-10 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 11/11/2010 07:31 AM, Sue Gardner wrote: > * Ideally, they would be stories of people who > pre-exposure-to-Wikipedia would have had circumscribed access to > information. Because they grew up in a small town with no library, > because their school didn't stock certain kinds of books, because > m

Re: [Foundation-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia

2010-11-10 Thread Abbas Mahmoud
Check this out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/kenya-plane-homemade Regards, Abbas > From: sgard...@wikimedia.org > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:32:46 -0800 > To: devnation...@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Devnations-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikip

[Foundation-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia

2010-11-10 Thread Sue Gardner
Hi folks, Megan Hernandez on the staff is looking out for me, for stories of readers whose lives have been impacted by Wikipedia or the other projects. (Donors often send us stories like that, and I am often looking for stories to tell people about the projects. So I've asked her to send good ones

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Andrea Zanni
Thank you Michael, this helps a lot. I knew my question was silly but I didn't know the reason ;-). Aubrey 2010/11/10 Michael Snow > On 11/10/2010 11:27 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > 2010/11/10 Milos Rancic > >> We are discussing now at WM RS list about treating copyright terms for > >> Serbian a

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 20:27, Andrea Zanni wrote: > 2010/11/10 Milos Rancic > >> We are discussing now at WM RS list about treating copyright terms for >> Serbian authors. >> >> Terms are: >> * Previous situation was 50 years after author's death. >> * The new copyright term in Serbia came in 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Michael Snow
On 11/10/2010 11:27 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > 2010/11/10 Milos Rancic >> We are discussing now at WM RS list about treating copyright terms for >> Serbian authors. >> >> Terms are: >> * Previous situation was 50 years after author's death. >> * The new copyright term in Serbia came in 2004, introdu

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Andrea Zanni
2010/11/10 Milos Rancic > We are discussing now at WM RS list about treating copyright terms for > Serbian authors. > > Terms are: > * Previous situation was 50 years after author's death. > * The new copyright term in Serbia came in 2004, introducing 70 years > after author's death. > * That mea

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 19:30, Andre Engels wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > >> My precise question is: Does US law follow local copyright laws in >> relation to the works published locally and by authors with local >> citizenship? Or not? > > No, many countries app

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > My precise question is: Does US law follow local copyright laws in > relation to the works published locally and by authors with local > citizenship? Or not? No, many countries apply the 'law of shorter term' (that is, works from other count

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > The servers are in the US and owned by a US organisation which has > minimal overseas assets, which means US law is pretty much the only > one that applies. If you want people in Serbia to be able to re-use > the content, though, you need to

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 18:33, Thomas Dalton wrote: > The servers are in the US and owned by a US organisation which has > minimal overseas assets, which means US law is pretty much the only > one that applies. If you want people in Serbia to be able to re-use > the content, though, you need to ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
The servers are in the US and owned by a US organisation which has minimal overseas assets, which means US law is pretty much the only one that applies. If you want people in Serbia to be able to re-use the content, though, you need to make sure it satisfies Serbian law too. That means you need to

[Foundation-l] Office Hours with Executive Director Sue Gardner, today 18:00 UTC

2010-11-10 Thread Steven Walling
Hi everyone, Today at 18:00 UTC will be IRC Office Hours with the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, Sue Gardner. As usual it will take place in #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net. You can find links to time conversions and a guide to accessing IRC at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/

[Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

2010-11-10 Thread Milos Rancic
We are discussing now at WM RS list about treating copyright terms for Serbian authors. Terms are: * Previous situation was 50 years after author's death. * The new copyright term in Serbia came in 2004, introducing 70 years after author's death. * That means that works which authors died in 1953