On 19/02/2008, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
Resolution...
Whereas: The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to promote freely
accessible and openly licensed materials and allow their reuse in any way
the public sees fit, the proposal to extent the terms of copyright within
the European Union for performers are a grave concern.
A primary goal of the Foundation is to see material such as audio recordings
which have fallen into the public domain used to complement the associated
Wikipedia articles in addition to other use on related projects. To that
end, the Foundation opposes any extension of copyright terms for any group.
The board of the Wikimedia Foundation has therefore passed this resolution
in opposition to the proposals tabled by commissioner McCreevy and would
call for a cessation of all moves to make copyright more restrictive.
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How's that look?
Brian McNeil
Well it's in direct violation of the March 23rd, 2007 Wikimedia
Foundation Licensing policy resolution but other than that not bad.
Remember most of the stuff this law change would apply to would in any
case not be considered free due to the remaining author rights in the
work.
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geni