Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 6/11/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_requests frequently sees recurring copyright debates, which I believe is basically because we are a bunch of amateurs trying to make decisions on complex international copyright law.
This is no slight on the people who take part in these debates (I am one of them), but it simply seems to me quite silly. No one can be sure who is right, we argue in circles and it's really inefficient. I really feel out of my depth trying to argue on copyright cases, but I do it because *someone* has to - there just isn't enough attention given to these cases.
I agree that this tends to be a problem. I think the only solution though is to come to a rough consensus on the major issues and then write them down so that the same work isn't being done over and over again.
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I agree. Several times I've looked at debates about whether certain things are acceptable or not (eg. trademarks, sculptures, buildings, physical objects) and thought "haven't we had this discussion before? Hasn't this been asked of juriwiki-l and they've answered?" We need to stick it somewhere *prominant* and permanantly protect it so that people aren't tempted to alter it to suit their own purposes.