[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: "Official Works" legislation initiatives

[Mathias Schindler]

Greetings,

a while ago, Wikimedia Israel triggered legislative efforts regarding
the licencing of state works (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_text_copyright for international
implementations).

>From what I heard from WMIL, the issue went back and forth in
committees and indeed copyright law was changed. Official works remain
subject to copyright but non-commercial usage is permitted with a few
more restrictions.

Here is my question to you: Are there other chapters with similar
involvement in national copyright debates, especially when it comes to
Official Works, Public Sector Information, etc.?

Feel free to reply on the mailing lists or directly to
mathias.schindler at wikimedia.de

Pointers to blogs, briefs, laws, parliament databases are very much appreciated.

Mathias

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Mathias Schindler
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