On 2 May 2013 07:54, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@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. > > Nemo
Nemo, don't underestimate the power of us. :-) If a GLAM or a magazine with a long term digital archive (just two of some pressing cases in my mind) would like help with logging an official record of a "diligent search", then they could do much worse than contacting us regulars on Wikimedia Commons and/or the UK Chapter for assistance in generating and validating its content. For any serious collection of orphan works of high public value, I would be happy to spend several hours of my volunteer time contributing to a wiki-based public search report and gaining opinions and additional searches by our volunteers, many having highly developed understanding of copyright, the nature of orphan works and where to check for copyright claims and registration. A couple of such example public reports would be highly likely to be adopted by government as an reference case studies of implementation. Shall we just do it? Cheers, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l