Re: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

2012-03-17 Thread Bod Notbod
Just thought I'd add this as an addendum to discussion of copyright in foreign parts. In Belgium a rights lobby [1] wants to charge libraries when they read books to children [2]. I guess they see it as akin to playing music in a public place, which here in the UK is charged by the Performing Rig

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report - February 2012

2012-03-17 Thread Bence Damokos
Dear all, Please find the February 2012 report of Wikimedia Hungary available at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/February_2012. Reports covering the September-November 2011 period have also been published in Hungarian at: http://meta.wiki