2013/5/2 geni <geni...@gmail.com>: > On 2 May 2013 04:06, shi zhao <shiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/ >> > > > Dude this is Wikimedia-l. Home to rather a lot of copyright nerds. If there > was actually a significant problem with the law don't you think we would > have raised the issue back when it was first proposed? > > Seriously I've seen this topic floating around on various photography > sites. Any idea who is behind the campaign and why? >
Actually in Poland there is a public discussion about adoption of EU directive about orphan works in which we are active together with several other NGO's workong together under umbrela of Coalition for Open Education: http://koed.org.pl/blog/2013/04/30/dziela-osierocone-i-dziela-niedostepne-w-handlu-stanowisko-koalicji-otwartej-edukacji/ Although EU directive is not very good for us - the EU countries still have some freedom how to adopt it to its local law. Therefore as part of our involvement in public discussion we wrote a detailed opinion how it could be adpoted in Poland to make orphan works as freely as possible available... http://koed.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/stanowisko_KOED_dziela_osierocone.pdf Probably substantial part of it could be used in other EU countries as well... -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l