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-----Original Message----- From: wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of rupert THURNER Sent: 08 June 2014 17:27 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons and OCILLA
Would it make sense to deploy a server in another country under a domain not owned by the foundation? E.g. Switzerland?
Rupert Am 08.06.2014 14:10 schrieb "Jeevan Jose" jkadavoor@gmail.com:
BTW, why we have separate policies for Commons and Wikipedia? I just noticed that photographs deleted from Common per "not free in source country" are restored by our own (Commons) admins in English Wikipedia.
Jee
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 5:18 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 June 2014 12:21, matanya matanya@foss.co.il wrote:
Hello,
Commons licensing policy determines media should be free in source country and in US. I want to propose We change the policy to be: "free in source country" only, and to cope with US laws where the servers are hosted found a "DMCA take down notice" Team in OTRS, that will handle requests to remove Items that are non-free in the US after verifying proper grounds for the claim.
This approach to copyright will prevent issues like URAA issues,
shorter
term issues and restored copyright issues.
No it it won't. UK restored a bunch of copyrights when EU went life+70
It will enrich commons with many files that are FREE (mostly PD) in source country, but not on commons due to US laws. Unless the copyright holder (mostly Gov's and archives) will not request removal, and they won't since they released the media, we will be using those files.
If the government held the copyright then you contact them and ask them about their position on potential overseas copyrights.
I'm not a lawyer, so I probably missed most of the legal implication, But I do volunteer to found and lead the team, if this idea is accepted and commons community would want this policy change. I'm seeking input from copyright experienced users and lawyers, before i start an
official
policy change on commons.
The main problem that you hit is that "free in source country and in
US"
is a pretty good proxy for "free pretty much anywhere" (well unless the source country is the US but that's a separate problem). For example depending on how you read Saudi law there are a bunch of photos that are free in Saudi Arabia and pretty much nowhere else (Switzerland perhaps)
but
unless our resuser know their way around over 100 copyright systems they probably aren't going to know that. Thus from a reuse POV commons goes
from
being useful (as long as you allow for US weirdness) to being (from a copyright perspective) a radioactive mess. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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