[Foundation-l] WMF/EFF and Copyright extension

[Chad]

Alnokta: Thanks for catching that. It's been fixed.

Brian: Thanks for the words of encouragement. I also thought
about putting up a printable version that people can show to
those in their communities. We can scan them and then show
real signatures as well, in addition to the digital ones. If you like
the idea, I can whip it up before your meeting tomorrow and
we might be able to get a few of the EFF members on board
as well, which would be a great morale boost for the cause.

-Chad

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> Chad, I think your wording is remarkably eloquent for someone who claims not
>  to be a writer. Of course, we could argue here on-list for the next week or
>  so about the wording - or we could get off our butts and promote the
>  petition.
>
>  I've already printed the front page of the petition out to take along with
>  me to the EFF offices in Brussels tomorrow. As long as you can avoid
>  accusations of spamming I'd suggest posting this on the Village Pump of
>  Wikipedia. Perhaps prior to that you need to put the petition into context
>  and detail what the current and proposed copyright terms are. I've already
>  signed the petition and wish you the best of luck in promoting it. I intend
>  to see it included in the Wikinews article we do tomorrow/Saturday following
>  our meeting with the EFF. Let's see you get this up on Slashdot and other
>  techie sites where there is a pro-open licensing and public domain
>  sentiment, let's show the EU that we can outdo the Muslim community when it
>  comes to getting signatures on a petition. :-P
>
>  [Aside, I note already signatures from new EU member states such as Poland,
>  with Wikinews Poland being quite an active site I'll be watching for their
>  contributors turning up in IRC and asking them to sign and help you out with
>  translations. The ideal is to have this in every language used within the
>  EU. This was exactly what I wanted WMF to do but was misinterpreted as
>  wanting some bizarre extension to MediaWiki.]
>
>
>
>  Brian McNeil
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
>  [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Chad
>
> Sent: 21 February 2008 16:22
>  To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WMF/EFF and Copyright extension
>
>
>
> I see your point. Do you have a suggested rewording? I'm more
>  than open to ideas, I'm not a writer :-)
>
>  Thanks,
>  Chad
>
>  On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>
>  wrote:
>  > Chad wrote:
>  >  > TBH, I'm tired of sitting around and not acting on a problem, so I did
>  act.
>  >  > And I hope it will be in a big way. I've launched my own petition
>  against
>  >  > the EU's actions over at Veropedia. If anyone cares to take a look
>  and/or
>  >  > sign (preferably sign, we want to make this a strong message to the
>  EU),
>  >  > the URL is as follows:
>  >  >
>  >  > http://petition.veropedia.com/
>  >
>  >  It's too late, but I think that this may be too weak:
>  >
>  >   > We therefore call on Commissioner Charlie McCreevey of the European
>  >   > Union to reconsider the extension of copyright protection for
>  performers
>  >
>  >  So, he may reconsider it but do it anyway. Or extend "only" to 70 years.
>  >  No, this needs to be stopped.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  _______________________________________________
>  >  foundation-l mailing list
>  >  foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  >  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>  >
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  foundation-l mailing list
>  foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  foundation-l mailing list
>  foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>