[Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

[Samuel Klein]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 3:54:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian
>>governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0
>>
>> On 03/05/11 8:04 PM, Newyorkbrad wrote:
>> > I'll ask the same thing here  that I asked in the other thread and no one
>> > responded to, which is, can  someone please provide some concrete examples
> of
>> > how this issue affects  Wikipedia, rather than discuss the disagreement in
>> > purely abstract and  theoretical terms?  Frankly, I have very little idea
>> > what the post  below means, which is something I'd like to change as it
>> > sounds somewhat  important.
>>
>> Of these three I would find the Mexican situation to be of  greatest
>> concern. Mexico already has extraordinarily long copyright  terms.  It's
>> in the ND feature that the potential moral rights problems  lie.  When is
>> a derivative sufficiently different to be  defamatory.  What is the
>> thinking behind adding the ND parameter. Is it  some vain attempt to
>> ensure accuracy, or is there a more insidious  reasoning.
>
> ND also rules out translations

(I always thought this was a weakness of the original ND idea.  There
were a few long debates within CC about whether to enable translation,
or to have a separate translation-specific flag, which faded out.)