[Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

[Newyorkbrad]

I'll ask the same thing here that I asked in the other thread and no one
responded to, which is, can someone please provide some concrete examples of
how this issue affects Wikipedia, rather than discuss the disagreement in
purely abstract and theoretical terms?  Frankly, I have very little idea
what the post below means, which is something I'd like to change as it
sounds somewhat important.

Newyorkbrad

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mexico switched from PD to CC-BY-NC-ND in 2006 (1)
> Argentina from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC some time in 2009-2011 (2)
> Brazil removed CC-BY-SA altogether from the culture ministry website
> in early 2011, in a context where the ministry is planning to reform
> the copyright law (3)
>
> Are our definition and our practices around free culture attractive
> enough for democratically elected governments ?
>
> My view is that they aren't. They are unnecessarily dry, unhuman,
> personality-rights-moral-rights aggressive,
> uploader-unfriendly-downloader-friendly.
>
> (1) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Mexico-NIP
> (2)
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing/Archive_32#Template:CC-AR-Presidency
> (3)
> http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/02/08/inside-views-brazils-copyright-reform-schizophrenia/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20ip-watch%20%28Intellectual%20Property%20Watch%29
>
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