Promoting Free Culture in a political but nonpartisan way seems to
fall within the foundation's mandate.
"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content
under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally.
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides
the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the
support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other
endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep
useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of
charge, in perpetuity."
(from
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Promoting keeping education content in the public domain falls within
our mission.
WilyD
On Feb 19, 2008 8:58 AM, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> wrote:
halt all discussions? Hmmm, doesn't sound very
wiki to halt
discussions :) I'd rather say decision making process or something in
that line.
But something tells me that this is not the main question here that
will cost time, but also whether the WMF should make a poliotical
statement at all? Quickly browsing, I can't find any precedent on
this...
Although i think myself that the WMF should be able to make political
statements of this kind, I can imagine that others disagree.
BR, Eia
2008/2/19, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>rg>:
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Modified:
And again...It's performer's rights, musicians/composers are already life+
Whereas: The Wikimedia Foundation wishes to encourage freedom of content, a
goal endangered by the recent efforts of the European Union to extend
copyright for musical performers from 50 to 95 years and,
Whereas, The Wikimedia Foundation operates the largest collection of free
and copy-left content in the world, and,
Whereas, The Wikimedia Foundation has always encouraged the distribution and
creation of free content, and,
Whereas, the thousands of contributors to Wikimedia's contributions are a
vocal and committed body,
then, therefore, be it resolved that:
The Wikimedia Foundation publicly denounces the actions taken by the
European Union to extend the terms of copyright, and calls for the Union to
immediately halt all discussions that endanger the expiration of or lengthen
the period of copyright standards.
Brian McNeil
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