Hi folks, following this conversation, Creative Commons published this post yesterday.
https://creativecommons.org/campaigns/trans-pacific-partnership-would-harm-user-rights-and-the-commons 2015-11-07 2:15 GMT-06:00 Ivan Martínez <gala...@gmail.com>: > Hi, there's a lot of review and analyze about TPP because not only in the > States we will have potential strong legal modifications. In Wikimedia > Mexico we are aware since one year ago at least following the analysis of > other NGOs devoted to internet freedom and copyright which can be a > potential risk to Wikimedia mission. > > The main issue in the next days is that the extension of the revealed text > needs to have much analysis to have clear points that can be potential > risks to our mission. > > Thanks, > > 2015-11-07 1:16 GMT-06:00 Gergő Tisza <gti...@gmail.com>: > >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >> > I don't see anything in the TPP requiring retroactive application of >> > copyright terms. We'll have to wait and see how the various countries >> > choose to apply the new terms. Applying terms retroactively is uncommon, >> > but possible. We also have no idea when these countries are actually >> going >> > to apply the new terms. >> > >> >> I don't think it's uncommon, the US is the odd one out on this (or almost >> out, since in the end it did apply Berne terms retroactively). For >> example >> the EU Copyright Directive prescribes a death + 70 copyright term so >> countries joining the EU restore copyright to all works for which they had >> shorter protection. International copyright treaties tend to be >> retroactive >> by default; "works shall be protected for X years after the death of the >> author" applies to all works, whether they are in the public domain >> currently or not. >> >> From the regulator's point of view this is reasonable; the point of these >> treaties is harmonization of the law, and harmonizing the protection term >> of one group of works but leaving another group protected in some >> countries >> and unprotected in others doesn't really make sense. The alternative would >> be a rule of the shorter term, but the US does not have that, and they are >> the driving force behind TPP, so... >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > > -- > *Iván Martínez* > > > *Presidente - Wikimedia México A.C.User:ProtoplasmaKid @protoplasmakid* > > Hemos creado la más grande colección de conocimiento compartido. Ayuda a > proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: > https://donate.wikimedia.org > -- *Iván Martínez* *Presidente - Wikimedia México A.C.User:ProtoplasmaKid @protoplasmakid* Hemos creado la más grande colección de conocimiento compartido. Ayuda a proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
