On 2 May 2013 08:37, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > 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. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l