Talk:Reform of copyright and copyright-related protections

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Title change[edit]

The new title is weird. How are things like database rights included in it? --Nemo 12:12, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, database rights fall under the category of Intellectual Property Rights. Calling it IPR Reform seems weirder, though. We have a few examples in our long list (database rights and data protection) which are not strictly copyright, but I nevertheless suggest to keep it simple for the general public and leave the title. In our priorities list database rights will most probably not even be mentioned, as they're a EU-only issue. --Dimi z (talk) 15:10, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Our priorities" being what? Is this some USA-only thing? Database rights seem among the most important problems around. --Nemo 20:20, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Priorities[edit]

I will make the first pitch and suggest the following list, based on everything I have read so far:

Fundamental goals

  • Shorten (or prevent extension) of copyright terms
  • Raising treshhold for required added creativity
  • Standardised limitations and exceptions
  • Opt-in copyright system (like patent law)

Issue-oriented goals

  • Government Works (We need to discuss the relationship between government works/publicly funded works and what we want to go for.)
  • Freedom of Panorama
  • Orphan Works
  • Open Access/Open Educational Resources (in OA we want freely licensed content, therefore I am grouping these two together)

As we're talking about a possible policy statement calling for a copyright reform, I am strictly excluding all issues like censorship and FoI (important, but not copyright). --Dimi z (talk) 16:08, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great Summary!! I'd rather say: Fundamental goal- Strengthen the public domain and for that we need the above mentioned goals (first four). And I would like to add something related to Orphan works. Opt-insystem if good for that, but we also need a clear policy for them. I am paraphrasing Bea's commont from the mailing list

For the continued discussion please go to Talk:Advocacy

Google and EU booklet disinformation[edit]

Google is distributing a rather questionable handbook [1], where I originally wanted to check whether it says anything about participating into free cultural works/Wikimedia projects (answer: no, of course, though it mentions CC licenses: "participation" even has a Google Maps icon, not OSM).

  • Curious, ad hoc (or rather, twisted) logic: «47% of users cannot confidently identify whether the online content they download, stream or share is legal or not – highlighting the importance of increased efforts to and educate inform consumers.» [2]
  • Anti-Bern convention statements? «Copyrighting your work. Have you ever copyrighted your own work? How do you do it? Where can you find further information?»

--Nemo 14:58, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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