[Wikinews-l] News from Serbia (in English and Italian)

[Milos Rancic]

Some of Serbian institutions, like the Government, have multilingual
and well frequent news services. According to our copyright law "work
of a government institution is not an author work (i.e. is not
copyrighted)". It is funny to see copyright notice at the bottom of
the page because it means that it is really free :) Without such
notice we wouldn't be sure that materials are belong to some
government institution :) However, I'll contact them to be sure about
that (I am sure that they are willing to give their news to us, even
they don't know *their* copyright law well).

The point is that there are news in English [1] and Italian [2]. Both
of them are frequent enough (more frequent in English) that I am
skeptical about adding them directly to the main page because it would
cause some days that Italian Wikinews have 2/3 news about Serbian
government. As far as I could see, news are written in neutral
journalist manner and they are completely valid for any news agency.

So, my suggestions for the steps are:

- People from it.wn and en.wn should say explicitly that they want
news. Also, some Wikinewsians from both projects should take
monitoring of those news. (It is more important for it.wn because I
don't know Italian.)
- I should talk with government (or at least with some lawyer well
introduced in copyright law; we have some of them) and be sure that
their news are free.
- If everything is good enough:
-- I'll make a bot for adding news (for example, it will check for new
news once per hour).
-- Start with it.

[1] - http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/?change_lang=en
[2] - http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/?change_lang=it