[Foundation-l] EU wants to increase musicians' and singers' copyright to 95 years

[Chad]

I should hope its opinion would be not in favor of it. In fact,
a board resolution denouncing the change help as well.

-Chad

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Benjamin Smith <benji.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian McNeil a écrit :
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> > Benjamin Smith wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >> We definitely should try to join with FSF / EFF / any other organisation
>  >> with similar aims. We are, remember, still a small organisation.
>  >> Wikipedia is well-known, but people won't even make a link with
>  >> copyright on music. The only way to try to be heard in this matter is
>  >> joining our efforts.
>  >>
>  >> Anyone wanting to start the petition on meta ? ;-)
>  >>
>  >
>  > Methinks someone should install petition software on the toolserver and put
>  > a message up in the sitenotice. If you're saying we can currently use
>  > classical music 70 years after author's death but the EU wants to put it up
>  > to 95 I'm sure you'll get massive support. I'm all for the Foundation being
>  > politically neutral but this is an issue that seriously impacts the mission.
>  > To pervert Tom Cruise's whacky video, "Copyright evangelists? Go to guns!"
>  >
>  >
>  > Brian McNeil
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>  Mmmh... I'm not sure the foundation should go that far. There are
>  already many petition tools on the internet, no need imho to have that
>  kind on tools as a MediaWiki extension. And putting a sitenotice
>  promoting that petition would really not be NPOV. But posting in wikis'
>  village pumps, yes, of course. And Wikimedia's local chapters
>  communicating about this, why not. But the foundation, that hosts
>  Wikimedia projects and thus has direct relations with the wikis,
>  shouldn't express that clerly its opinion imho.
>
>  Yrs
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