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This is an internal working space for Wikimedia-DC members developing and understanding and possible recommendations about '''copyright policy'''.
  
This is an internal working space for Wikimedia-DC members developing and understanding and possible recommendations about '''copyright policy'''.
   
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=== Upcoming issues ===
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* In 2011 the Wikimedia Foundation and many allied groups stood against bills proposed in the U.S. Congress that would impose burdens on wiki sites (among others) if users created certain copyright-related content there. SOPA and PIPA were bills motivated partly by the TV, film, and TV industries to incorporate copyright protection into the infrastructure of the Internet. This chapter stood with the movement on this. Here was Wiki DC's [[statement on SOPA and PIPA]]. Amazingly the effort was beaten back -- our side won.
  
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* '''Orphan works''' (please define): The public policy committee has been asked to formulate the chapter's stand on copyright issues for "orphan works" for an upcoming workshop. Document due March 8, 2014. Gerald wrote to the WMF general counsel's office.
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* URAA in 2014
  
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* '''URAA''' -- Uruguay Round agreements -- these seem to be spreading copyright to works that have been in the public domain and Wikimedia chapters have come out against this aspect of the URAA.
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* Gerald wrote to the WMF general counsel's office.
  
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* [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130318/11114922368/more-details-copyright-register-maria-pallantes-call-comprehensive-forward-thinking-flexible-copyright-reform.shtml copyright reform proposal]
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* The public policy committee is asked to formulate the chapter's stand on copyright issues for "orphan works" for an upcoming workshop. Document due March 8, 2014.
  
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=== History ===
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* In 2011, SOPA and PIPA were bills motivated partly by the TV, film, and TV industries to incorporate copyright protection into the infrastructure of the Internet. The Wikimedia Foundation and many allied groups stood against bills proposed in the U.S. Congress that would impose burdens on wiki sites (among others) if users created certain copyright-related content there. This chapter stood with the movement on this, supporting WMF's blackout of the Wikipedias. This was framed as advocating for Internet freedom. Here was Wiki DC's [[statement on SOPA and PIPA]]. Amazingly the effort was beaten back -- our side won.

Revision as of 03:51, 28 February 2014

This is an internal working space for Wikimedia-DC members developing and understanding and possible recommendations about copyright policy.

Upcoming issues

  • Orphan works (please define): The public policy committee has been asked to formulate the chapter's stand on copyright issues for "orphan works" for an upcoming workshop. Document due March 8, 2014. Gerald wrote to the WMF general counsel's office.
  • URAA -- Uruguay Round agreements -- these seem to be spreading copyright to works that have been in the public domain and Wikimedia chapters have come out against this aspect of the URAA.
  • copyright reform proposal

History

  • In 2011, SOPA and PIPA were bills motivated partly by the TV, film, and TV industries to incorporate copyright protection into the infrastructure of the Internet. The Wikimedia Foundation and many allied groups stood against bills proposed in the U.S. Congress that would impose burdens on wiki sites (among others) if users created certain copyright-related content there. This chapter stood with the movement on this, supporting WMF's blackout of the Wikipedias. This was framed as advocating for Internet freedom. Here was Wiki DC's statement on SOPA and PIPA. Amazingly the effort was beaten back -- our side won.
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