[Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

[Teofilo]

Le 11 décembre 2011 19:02, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> a écrit :
> Hi.
>
> The "Terms of use" rewrite is starting to wind down. The current draft is
> here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use>.

>From the point of view of Continental Europe, where creators enjoy
advanced copyright laws which protect their attribution right, I think
this implementation of the - creator belittling - US copyright law on
Wikimedia projects is a disgrace. What the licensing section of this
draft terms of use is saying is that the WMF simply disregards the
attribution rights which are granted by law in their countries. It is
humiliating.

By the clever use of attribution licenses, there was a way to
conciliate continental European laws and US or British laws. The WMF
decides not to do so, and to stubbornly push the US-copyright law
point of view. It is a pity.

Perhaps the WMF should not have relied on a US lawyer alone. Perhaps a
team associating a US lawyer with a continental Europe lawyer would
have been better.