Begin forwarded message:From: Michael Peel <email@mikepeel.net>Date: 23 November 2014 23:52:05 GMTTo: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>Cc: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org>Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Reducing the copyright term for (some) unpublished worksReply-To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>Thanks Andrew - that’s a good start. :-) I’ve added some of my suggested answers to some of the questions. I’ve cc’d commons-l who I’m sure will be able to suggest better answers that I can…_______________________________________________Thanks,MikeOn 23 Nov 2014, at 23:14, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:Hi all,
Some initial thoughts at
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2039_consultation - comments
appreciated.
Andrew.
On 7 November 2014 at 17:58, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:Hi all,
The government is currently consulting on reducing the copyright term
in some unpublished material - this is the "2039 problem" that a
number of institutions have been raising in recent weeks, where
unpublished works can be in copyright until 2039 despite being
potentially several centuries old.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reducing-the-duration-of-copyright-in-certain-unpublished-works
This seems like something where WMUK should submit a response (we have
a pretty clear interest in rationalising the regulations here).
Deadline is a month away so we've got some time to think about it.
I'm happy to draft up some notes for us to send in if no-one else is
putting something together - have we been looking at this already?
Andrew.
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