[Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities

[David Gerard]

2009/9/25 Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com>:

> I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full resolution
> pictures of Public Domain works. Because this is what the French
> copyright law is saying. There is no need to negociate anything. There
> is no need to change a single word from the current French copyright
> law. Simply have the French government's cultural institutions
> (museums, archives) recognize that they have been wrong until now, by
> adding copyright notices on Public Domain works (in France:
> non-poshumous works whose authors have been dead for more than 70
> years).
    [...]
> Negociating small size pictures could be only a lower level priority
> concerning truely copyrighted works when the artists are still alive
> and need money to buy their bread.


Oh yeah, we need people to push in all directions at once at all
strengths at once.


- d.