On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)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