Some of Serbian institutions, like the Government, have multilingual and well frequent news services. According to our copyright law "work of a government institution is not an author work (i.e. is not copyrighted)". It is funny to see copyright notice at the bottom of the page because it means that it is really free :) Without such notice we wouldn't be sure that materials are belong to some government institution :) However, I'll contact them to be sure about that (I am sure that they are willing to give their news to us, even they don't know *their* copyright law well).
The point is that there are news in English [1] and Italian [2]. Both of them are frequent enough (more frequent in English) that I am skeptical about adding them directly to the main page because it would cause some days that Italian Wikinews have 2/3 news about Serbian government. As far as I could see, news are written in neutral journalist manner and they are completely valid for any news agency.
So, my suggestions for the steps are:
- People from it.wn and en.wn should say explicitly that they want news. Also, some Wikinewsians from both projects should take monitoring of those news. (It is more important for it.wn because I don't know Italian.) - I should talk with government (or at least with some lawyer well introduced in copyright law; we have some of them) and be sure that their news are free. - If everything is good enough: -- I'll make a bot for adding news (for example, it will check for new news once per hour). -- Start with it.
[1] - http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/?change_lang=en [2] - http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/?change_lang=it