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
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.
sent from Galaxy Note
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: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.
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
--Michael Snow
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