Greetings,
I'd like you to take a few moments to have a look at https://public.resource.org/edicts/ and the discussion about whether copyright protection should be awarded to government works. The wording suggested on this page calls for the amendment of the US copyright code:
"Edicts of government, such as judicial opinions, administrative rulings, legislative enactments, public ordinances, and similar official legal documents are not copyrightable for reasons of public policy. This applies to such works whether they are Federal, State, or local as well as to those of foreign governments."
This definition is narrower than the wording regarding *federal* works, which are not copyrightable at all, regardless of their "edictive" (no such word exists in my dictionary) nature.
Mathias
Hello Mathais,
I see this discussion on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Support_for_US_copyrigh...)
Do you know if there are any other discussions about edicts of governments on wiki?
I was glad that Carl's testimony happened during Copyright Week in January ( https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek). Thanks for sharing!
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Mathias Schindler < mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Greetings,
I'd like you to take a few moments to have a look at https://public.resource.org/edicts/ and the discussion about whether copyright protection should be awarded to government works. The wording suggested on this page calls for the amendment of the US copyright code:
"Edicts of government, such as judicial opinions, administrative rulings, legislative enactments, public ordinances, and similar official legal documents are not copyrightable for reasons of public policy. This applies to such works whether they are Federal, State, or local as well as to those of foreign governments."
This definition is narrower than the wording regarding *federal* works, which are not copyrightable at all, regardless of their "edictive" (no such word exists in my dictionary) nature.
Mathias
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Do you know if there are any other discussions about edicts of governments on wiki?
And/or any projects about uploading them to Wikisource? I know Carl would love to see us mirroring the work he already does into there, and it seems like doing that would be both a natural fit and maybe make us a better advocacy partner for it in the long run.
Luis
Wikisource is the correct place for uploading within the Wikimedia universe. In order not to reinvent the wheel, collaboration with existing open law projects (maybe OKFN working group on that subject http://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/15/open-legislation-working-group-relaunched-at...) might be time well spent.
Mathias
2014-02-11 18:41 GMT+01:00 Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org:
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.org wrote:
Do you know if there are any other discussions about edicts of governments on wiki?
And/or any projects about uploading them to Wikisource? I know Carl would love to see us mirroring the work he already does into there, and it seems like doing that would be both a natural fit and maybe make us a better advocacy partner for it in the long run.
Luis
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As you know, WMF is not touching content with a ten-foot-pole :) But obviously if others want to work with either Carl or OKFN that'd be great.
Luis
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Mathias Schindler < mathias.schindler@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Wikisource is the correct place for uploading within the Wikimedia universe. In order not to reinvent the wheel, collaboration with existing open law projects (maybe OKFN working group on that subject
http://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/15/open-legislation-working-group-relaunched-at... ) might be time well spent.
Mathias
2014-02-11 18:41 GMT+01:00 Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org:
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Do you know if there are any other discussions about edicts of
governments
on wiki?
And/or any projects about uploading them to Wikisource? I know Carl would love to see us mirroring the work he already does into there, and it
seems
like doing that would be both a natural fit and maybe make us a better advocacy partner for it in the long run.
Luis
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