BTW, why we have separate policies for Commons and Wikipedia? I just
noticed that photographs deleted from Common per "not free in source
country" are restored by our own (Commons) admins in English Wikipedia.
Jee
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 5:18 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 June 2014 12:21, matanya
<matanya(a)foss.co.il> wrote:
Hello,
Commons licensing policy determines media should be free in source
country and in US. I want to propose We change the policy to be: "free
in source country" only, and to cope with US laws where the servers are
hosted found a "DMCA take down notice" Team in OTRS, that will handle
requests to remove Items that are non-free in the US after verifying
proper grounds for the claim.
This approach to copyright will prevent issues like URAA issues, shorter
term issues and restored copyright issues.
No it it won't. UK restored a bunch of copyrights when EU went life+70
It will enrich commons with many files that are FREE (mostly PD) in
source country, but not on commons due to US laws. Unless the copyright
holder (mostly Gov's and archives) will not request removal, and they
won't since they released the media, we will be using those files.
If the government held the copyright then you contact them and ask them
about their position on potential overseas copyrights.
I'm not a lawyer, so I probably missed most
of the legal implication,
But I do volunteer to found and lead the team, if this idea is accepted
and commons community would want this policy change. I'm seeking input
from copyright experienced users and lawyers, before i start an official
policy change on commons.
The main problem that you hit is that "free in source country and in US"
is a pretty good proxy for "free pretty much anywhere" (well unless the
source country is the US but that's a separate problem). For example
depending on how you read Saudi law there are a bunch of photos that are
free in Saudi Arabia and pretty much nowhere else (Switzerland perhaps) but
unless our resuser know their way around over 100 copyright systems they
probably aren't going to know that. Thus from a reuse POV commons goes from
being useful (as long as you allow for US weirdness) to being (from a
copyright perspective) a radioactive mess.
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>