[Advocacy Advisors] Copyright for government works

[Luis Villa]

As you know, WMF is not touching content with a ten-foot-pole :) But
obviously if others want to work with either Carl or OKFN that'd be great.

Luis


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Mathias Schindler <
mathias.schindler at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Wikisource is the correct place for uploading within the Wikimedia
> universe. In order not to reinvent the wheel, collaboration with
> existing open law projects (maybe OKFN working group on that subject
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/15/open-legislation-working-group-relaunched-at-okcon/
> )
> might be time well spent.
>
> Mathias
>
> 2014-02-11 18:41 GMT+01:00 Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org>:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte at wikimedia.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you know if there are any other discussions about edicts of
> governments
> >> on wiki?
> >
> >
> > And/or any projects about uploading them to Wikisource? I know Carl would
> > love to see us mirroring the work he already does into there, and it
> seems
> > like doing that would be both a natural fit and maybe make us a better
> > advocacy partner for it in the long run.
> >
> > Luis
> >
> >
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