Hi,
Some Wikimedians are wondering if this copyright law have an impact on WP since the servers are in the United States?
And do we know how many countries are concerned by this directive? With Free trade agreements, countries outside EU could be impacted (Switzerland ? Tunisia ?...)
Pyb
Hi,
I will let the lawyers answer the first question while pointing out this presentation by Tobias Lutzi https://prezi.com/vgxvatcao9vo/which-law-applies-to-wikipedia/ from Wikimania in London. There's a video https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tobias_Lutzi_-_Which_Law_Applies_to_Wikipedia_-_Wikimania_2014.webm.
Also worth noting that on most Wikipedias we try to comply with both the country of origin of the content/language and the US law where the servers are. So for instance on Bulgarian Wikipedia we tend to only allow content that respects Bulgarian and US copyright. There is a
The EU legal acts in the area of copyright have what is called "EEA relevance". This means that apart from the (still 28) Member States, they are also binding (although with more flexibilities) to Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Thus this reform sets out the copyright framework for 32 countries in Europe.
Cheers, Dimi
2018-07-06 11:15 GMT+02:00 Pierre-Yves Beaudouin < pierre.beaudouin@wikimedia.fr>:
Hi,
Some Wikimedians are wondering if this copyright law have an impact on WP since the servers are in the United States?
And do we know how many countries are concerned by this directive? With Free trade agreements, countries outside EU could be impacted (Switzerland ? Tunisia ?...)
Pyb
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 11:38 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com> wrote:
The EU legal acts in the area of copyright have what is called "EEA relevance". This means that apart from the (still 28) Member States, they are also binding (although with more flexibilities) to Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Thus this reform sets out the copyright framework for 32 countries in Europe.
On top of it, the EU will include pieces of its IPR legislation in trade and association treaties with third countries. Some of our "best selling exports" have been the criminalisation of DRM circumvention (aka: you may have a legal right to use content but at the same time, you are forbidden to exercise this right because of DRM) as well as term lenghts for copyright protection that exceed the Berne Convention.
Mathias
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