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

[Birgitte SB]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 3:54:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian 
>governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0
> 
> On 03/05/11 8:04 PM, Newyorkbrad wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Of these three I would find the Mexican situation to be of  greatest 
> concern. Mexico already has extraordinarily long copyright  terms.  It's 
> in the ND feature that the potential moral rights problems  lie.  When is 
> a derivative sufficiently different to be  defamatory.  What is the 
> thinking behind adding the ND parameter. Is it  some vain attempt to 
> ensure accuracy, or is there a more insidious  reasoning.

ND also rules out translations

Birgitte SB