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

[geni]

2008/11/14 Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com>:
> 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,

Not really. They want to produce a version of fair use with highly
statute defined boundaries. think south Korean law only more so. Since
such law cannot hope to keep up with advancing technologies it would
likely end up being significantly worse than existing fair dealing and
right of quotation systems.


> 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.

Not relevant to the green paper. About the only bit that could
actually have an impact is the orphan works stuff and it would
probably be in our long term interests to oppose the proposed
implementation.

> 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 like my freedom of panorama and would rather it be kept well away
from the attention of whoever wrote the mess that is apparently a
green paper.

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geni