[Advocacy Advisors] FYI - Creative Commons statement on copyright reform

[Mathias Schindler]

2013/10/17 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>:

> - FOP
> - orphan works reform (if done correctly, could be useful for Wikibooks)
> - term reform/limitation (i.e., fighting the next wave of term extensions)
> - standardized limitations and exceptions:
> http://infojustice.org/flexible-use (possibly this approach is too vague to
> be useful for us)

Each and every one is important, I would like to add the following:

- Copyright status of government works / official works (if done
correctly, useful for all projects including Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Commons, think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise)
- Database rights (A mostly European madness, should be repealed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive)

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Mathias Schindler
Projektmanager
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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mail: mathias.schindler at wikimedia.de

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