[Wikimedia-l] UK.Gov passes Instagram Act

[geni]

On 2 May 2013 10:54, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 May 2013 08:37, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2 May 2013 07:54, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> If that's it, the law is completely useless, it just parrots general EU
> >> regulations. The big question in Europe is what qualifies as a "diligent
> >> search": I don't know if as usual UK wants to decide on its own, in any
> >> case it would be useful for WMUK to ask a committee or whatever to
> assist
> >> the Secretary of State in the decision and to be appointed/heard in such
> >> committee. Usually they only listen to publishers and sometimes
> librarians.
>
> > The reality is that the law is of no real interest to us since such works
> > can't end up under a free license.
>
>
> This is, of course, false. Ridiculous copyright lengths and permission
> culture in general are very much a problem for us, and something it's
> strongly in our interest to push back on in general.
>
>
However orphan works legislation is a hack designed to allow long copyright
terms to keep working without upsetting even more people. Its of no use to
us.



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geni