Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-22 Thread effe iets anders
I am so glad that as soon as someone pops up with some text when asked for it, that the positive reactions are so overwhelming :) Anyway, the translation has been proofread, feel free to use etc as explained. Lodewijk 2008/11/16 effe iets anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > Thanks for shari

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-16 Thread effe iets anders
It doesn't really matter what was on their mind, even though I also disagree on what is on their mind. It matters that the discussion has been broken open, and that it will be on the agenda of the commission and after that the parliament. If it is on the agenda, it is time for a little lobby and tr

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-16 Thread effe iets anders
nonsense. There are (small list): * Creative Commons, dozens of chapters * Wikimedia, several chapters * Free Knowledge institute * Open Office * Several Linux organisations * Actually *any* organisation that makes on a large scale freely licensed manuals etc * Open Streetmap * Several libraries (

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-16 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, Thanks for sharing this. Wikimedia Nederland is working on a reaction which has been draft-translated into English as well. We were invited by the Dutch ministry of legal affairs to give our view on this green paper, to be taken into account for the national government reaction. We have do

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread geni
2008/11/15 Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hoi, > When the EU develops a law that deals with copyright and licensing, it will > implicitly include "Free" licenses. EU backed laws have tended towards incidental hostility to free licenses. >It is exactly for this reason that > communities li

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the EU develops a law that deals with copyright and licensing, it will implicitly include "Free" licenses. It is exactly for this reason that communities like ours who have at least an idea of what we consider to be the right way forward are asked to step on the plate. When we, as a commu

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread geni
2008/11/15 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 14 Nov 2008, at 15:47, geni wrote: > >> 2008/11/14 teun spaans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Agree. >>> >>> And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses >>> could be >>> informed? >> >> >> There is nothing in there of any real signif

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Peel
On 14 Nov 2008, at 15:47, geni wrote: > 2008/11/14 teun spaans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Agree. >> >> And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses >> could be >> informed? > > > There is nothing in there of any real significance to free licenses. Isn't that something that shou

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-14 Thread Nemo_bis
Teofilo, 14/11/2008 16:20: > The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright > in the Knowledge Economy" (1) . http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Groep_Groenboek/en Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-14 Thread geni
2008/11/14 teun spaans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Agree. > > And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses could be > informed? There is nothing in there of any real significance to free licenses. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list f

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-14 Thread geni
2008/11/14 Teofilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright > in the Knowledge Economy" (1) . > > In §3.4. They talk about the possibility to adapt copyright law so > that user-created contents would become easier, Not really. They want to produce

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-14 Thread teun spaans
Agree. And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses could be informed? On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Teofilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright > in the Knowledge Economy" (1) . > > In §3.4. They talk about th

[Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-14 Thread Teofilo
The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy" (1) . In §3.4. They talk about the possibility to adapt copyright law so that user-created contents would become easier, and they ask to send them feedback by 30 November 2008 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I t