Re: [Commons-l] UK government information changes on the way?

This is interesting when British governmental information may become more public. While I support pursuing with the UK government, I also consider it needed to pursue with the USA government to accept the rule of the shorter term. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain#The_rule_of_the_shorte… and you will find that without honoring the rule of the shorter term of the Berne Convention in the US Copyright Law, certain works may be in the public domain in their home countries, but still considered legally copyrighted in the USA. This is harming the Wiki projects unless the server can ever be moved to a jurisdiction honoring the rule of the shorter term like Macao, but the Foundation has no such a plan. How about using http://www.petitiononline.com/ to pursue reclaiming the public domain? I would like to strongly encourage everyone to sign the following petitions involving copyright and public domain: http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html Reclaim the Public Domain http://www.petitiononline.com/mrap/petition.html M.R.A. Platform http://www.petitiononline.com/ukpod001/petition.html Podcasters' Rights and the WIPO Broadcast Treaty http://www.petitiononline.com/oldgame/petition.html Abandonware Jusjih, an admin at Commons, Wikisource, Wiktionary, and Wikipedia uncomfortable with excessive copyright blocking orphaned works