Long time ago, I tried to start a petition at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/American_non-acceptance_of_the_rule_of_the_s…
get U.S. to apply rule of the shorter term, but extremely limited
signatures and the lack of spam control at
http://www.petitiononline.commade 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(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)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.
sent from Galaxy Note
On Sep 18, 2012 9:01 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj(a)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(a)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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