Long time ago, I tried to start a petition at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/American_non-acceptance_of_the_rule_of_the_shorter_term to get U.S. to apply rule of the shorter term, but extremely limited signatures and the lack of spam control at http://www.petitiononline.com made me stop the campaign. If anyone is interested, I do allow someone with better skill to take over the petition signature campaign.
Chinese Wikisource also uses PD-EdictGov, similar to English Wikisource, but https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-EdictGov does warn Hong Kongers and Singaporeans that many English-speaking countries and areas, including English- and Chinese-speaking Hong Kong and Singapore, do copyright their own governmental works.
For Point 9 to get works by U.S. states added to public domain, PD-EdictGov already does it for some but not all such works.
Jusjih
Administrator on Meta, Commons, English and Chinese Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:46:41 +0700
From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Priorities for copyright and freedom (was:
Copyright of deep space objects)
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On English wikisource we use the absence of case law regarding foriegned
government and judicial documents as sufficient justification for all these
being PD in the US.
See http://enws.org/Template:PD-GovEdict<http://enws.org/Template:PDGovEdict>
Most countries explicitly refuse copyright on these works. It would be good
to have a universal declararion that these works are PD worldwide.
John Vandenberg.
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On Sep 18, 2012 9:01 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
> A lovely exercise. I would put freedom and accessibility of legal
> documents, from government standards to case law, high on that list.
> Starting in larger countries where there is already motion to make this
> happen. SJ
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia@frontier.com>wrote:
>
>> On 9/17/2012 5:22 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I would prefer that people pursue freedom of panorama before
>> we pursue "freedom of deep space objects". The later I would put pretty far
>> down the priority list, actually. How about the following agenda:
>>
>> 1. Freedom of orphaned works
>> 2. Freedom of panorama in U.S.
>> 3. Get Library of Congress to digitize all U.S. copyright records
>> 4. Get U.S. to apply rule of the shorter term
>> 5. Get U.K. to officially kill sweat of the brow
>> 6. Repeal database rights in EU
>> 7. Repeal Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act
>> 8. Fix absurd copyright terms in Mexico
>> 9. Get works by U.S. states added to public domain
>> 10. Freedom of deep space objects
>> ....
>> 99. Profit
>>
>> I'd probably use a different order, but that would be quibbling. I think
>> just the thought of prioritizing like this is a good exercise, and would
>> love to hear how other people stack up these priorities. It's an
>> interesting challenge to balance which of these ideas would have the most
>> impact with which are the most realistically achievable in the near future.
>>
>> --Michael Snow
>>
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