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On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Gnangarra <gnangarra@gmail.com> wrote:

IMHO working on deep space photos being PD is a good idea in that we are at the beginning of such an issue so making it retrospective is still possible, why cant everyone share in whats belongs to noone who's access has been funded in some way governments. I'd suspect that with publicity of the issue there would be a greater public support in the idea as most people would see space as something that isnt/shouldnt be owned by corporations

True. It would be good to have a community platform describing what should be PD and what clarifications are needed in which current laws to clarify the matter. Starting with relatively easy ones such as this, digitized versions of the law, &c.

That would make it easy to both unify public support behind a specific idea, and to offer next steps to politicians or lawyers who decide to get involved in making them happen. And it would help the WMF, chapters, and other large movement groups to run a campaign for a specific change if that is called for.

Right now there is no permanent collection of these sorts of positions; the thread on Commons VP is simply archived. And there are dozens of other conversations that lead to useful human-readable syntheses of the current state of international copyright law, which aren't quite gathered together in one place. Compiling these discussions and approaches into a single forum for copyright issues would also be a general service to everyone who cares about the copyfight.

On Meta perhaps? Currently there are separate discussions on commons, wikisources, and wikipedias. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Copyright is quite sparse.

SJ

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