Samuel Klein, 22/09/2012 19:25:
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.
As for PD, Communia's websites could perhaps be expanded in that way, it
could be a partnership to propose them?
See
http://publicdomainday.org/node/5 for a resource list.
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.
This is surely something Meta can be used for, but it's probably not
that good a platform. But I'm not good at planning political campaigns
like this.
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.
Factual documentation should not necessarily be all centralised. Commons
and Wikisource complement each other quite well, I found; on the other
hand (English) Wikipedia's project pages are mostly confusing duplicate
content and should mostly be moved elsewhere.
On Meta perhaps? Currently there are separate
discussions on commons,
wikisources, and wikipedias.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Copyright is quite sparse.
The category and its parent need some categorization effort (I did some
but not everything), there's much more stuff around although not as much
as one could want.
Nemo