Hi Michael,
Thanks for checking in on the copyright strategy! Indeed, there hasn’t been
much recent activity on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy/Issues. That’s not
because the copyright strategy is dormant, though, or because we on the WMF
legal team haven’t been doing copyright-related work.
An important aspect of initially building the copyright strategy was to
develop a process for thinking about, organizing, and directing our work of
providing the projects with copyright support. That process is still useful
to help guide us going forward.
We’ve been working over the past months on copyright policy issues in the
US[1, 2] and EU[3]. We’ve admittedly done a better job providing updates on
these efforts to this mailing list than on the copyright strategy page. We
also held a consultation later last year on upgrading the default license
for text from version 3.0 to version 4.0 of the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license[4], and we continue to look into how to
implement that change.
Another significant development is the commitment of resources to enable
structured data on Commons.[5] Structured data is mentioned in several of
the issues discussed as part of the copyright strategy, and we will be
helping structured data be implemented in a way that is useful for
copyright analysis and enabling licence-compliant reuse.
There are some issues on the copyright strategy page that I still hope to
work on, such as finding ways to improve the media upload process/form and
to improve the usability of on-wiki copyright guidance. Part of why these
things are happening slower than I would’ve liked is because the legal team
hasn’t had as much capacity to work on them as we had hoped when we
launched the copyright strategy. In addition to advising on copyright
related work, our team is also responsible for a range of other legal
services for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm very interested in developing
new ways for volunteers to be involved in implementing the copyright
strategy. I really appreciate everyone's comments and suggestions, and I
still watch the page on meta. I encourage you to follow up on any of the
stalled discussions there, and direct discussions of project-related
copyright issues you find elsewhere to that page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy/Issues
Best,
Charles
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2017-February/001592.html
[2]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/attachments/20170131/447…
[3]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/13/european-commission-copyright-leaks/
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0
[5]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data/
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Wikimedia Foundation
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Michael Maggs <Michael(a)maggs.name> wrote:
Hi
I see there hasn't been much action on the Meta pages recently. Would you
be able to provide an update please?
Regards
Michael
Charles M. Roslof wrote:
Hi policy folks,
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tl;dr: Please check out and participate in the new copyright strategy on
Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy>, and attend the
accompanying IRC office hour
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours>
on September 15.
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As you may have already seen on other mailing lists or through messages
on-wiki, we on the WMF legal team have been putting together a new strategy
for identifying, prioritizing, and addressing copyright issues that affect
Wikimedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy>. The goal
of the strategy is to improve how Wikimedia does its copyright-related work
by providing a centralized place for everyone—staff and non-staff alike—to
organize and collaborate on that work. There’s more information on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy
The strategy is designed to work with all sorts of issues, including
things like MediaWiki feature design, Creative Commons license compliance
and project copyright policies. I’m hoping the copyright strategy pages
will also become a place to track and discuss copyright-related public
policy opportunities and developments. If a copyright lawsuit is filed,
copyright legislation is proposed, or an opportunity arises to share
Wikimedia’s perspective on copyright with policymakers, it can be added to
the strategy’s list of issues
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_strategy/Issues>. We can then
all talk about it and propose responses or activism.
The goal of the strategy is not to replace this mailing list, the public
policy portal <http://policy.wikimedia.org>, or anywhere else where
policy discussions are already thriving, but to supplement existing forums.
By documenting discussions and keeping them active on-wiki, we can help
make sure we don’t lose track of anything.
If you have questions about all of this, I encourage you to leave a
comment on the copyright strategy talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Copyright_strategy>. The legal team
will also be holding an office hour on IRC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours>to
discuss the strategy on September 15 at 14:00 UTC.
I hope you’ll participate!
Best,
Charles M. Roslof
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
croslof(a)wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885
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members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see
our legal disclaimer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.
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