[Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

[teun spaans]

Agree.

And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses could be
informed?



On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright
> in the Knowledge Economy" (1) .
>
> In §3.4. They talk about the possibility to adapt copyright law so
> that user-created contents would become easier, and they ask to send
> them feedback by 30 November 2008 at markt-d1 at ec.europa.eu .
>
> I thought it would be kind of cool if the foundation or the individual
> european chapters would use this opportunity to give them some hints
> of what a Wikipedia-friendly copyright law/directive should look like,
> or a few concrete examples of the worries we are having in present
> time with the current laws. In particular it should be stressed how
> laws in some country lacking a "fair use" restriction for pictures
> and/or without a "panorama freedom" are cumbersome. Non copyright
> issues like the ltalian law on cultural goods should also be
> mentioned.
>
> I am sending the same message on the village pump on Commons :
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#European_Commission_Green_Paper_-_Copyright_in_the_Knowledge_Economy
>
>
> (1)
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0466:FIN:EN:HTML
>  (English)
>
> Other languages are available here :
>
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52008DC0466:FR:NOT
>
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