On 28 February 2014 06:41, Dennis Pierri <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be nice if all of the chapters send to their governments a > petition to allow a global standardized use of media just for wikimedia > projects, it is a big problem that every country has different laws on > copyright and public domain media, and that wikimedia has to comply with > U.S law just because the servers are in there, we as a community should ask > a global standardized media handling law for wikimedia which might or might > not include giving special licenses for wikimedia projects, trying to keep > in line with the foundation ideals, I know it sounds a bit crazy, but hey > it's the biggest compilation of human knowlege, it should be following laws > (copyright and public domain in this case) that all of human kind reach in > consensus, not just the laws of the place where the servers are. > > D > Wikimedia only licences aren't helpful. Finding out their position on goverment works with expired copyrights is somewhat more useful. Brits did it back in 2005: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-May/022055.html -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
