I think "theft" is too loaded a word.
How about "Depriving the public domain of culturally significant material"?
Brian McNeil
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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
Sent: 20 February 2008 20:37
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WMF/EFF and Copyright extension
On 20/02/2008, daniwo59(a)aol.com <daniwo59(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 2/20/2008 12:54:50 PM Eastern
Standard Time,
geniice(a)gmail.com writes:
A primary goal of the Foundation is to see material
such as audio
recordings which have fallen into the public domain used to enrich
associated Wikipedia articles in addition to other use and on related
projects. To that end, the Foundation opposes any extension of
copyright terms that could compromise these goals.
No, that is not good. The reason we oppose the
extension of copyright is
not
so that we can make Wikipedia pretty and have lots of
cool sound bytes
and
images. I would hope the reason we oppose the
extension of copyright is
far
more principled than that.
The phrase "theft from the public domain" needs to go in there - that
this is not something for plunder, but something for all of us.
- d.
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