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Oggetto: Free licenses and freedom of panorama now recognized in
Russian law!
Data: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:21:49 +0000
Mittente: wikimediablog
Free licenses and freedom of panorama now recognized in Russian law!
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Building_of_Moscow_state_Unive…>
One of the undeleted images: Main building of Moscow State University
(“Main Building of Moscow state University”
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Building_of_Moscow_state_Unive…>
by Victor Morozov (Rdfr <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rdfr>),
under CC-BY-2.5 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode>)
Wikimedia Russia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Russia>
congratulates the Russians and all the proponents of free culture to the
changes in the Russian Civil Code, which are very significant for the
promotion of the free knowledge. Particularly, the amendments are
extremely important for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects; and for
developers of free software. The amendments entered into force on
October 1st, 2014; Wikimedia RU actively participated in their preparation.
Among the numerous changes, we should mention:
* Open licenses introduced.
The new law directly recognizes free licenses (which are
fundamental for projects like Wikipedia or Linux). The authors
of free content will be able to have legal protection from
misuse of their works.
* Freedom of panorama
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama> introduced.
Now it is allowed to take photos in any public territory. The
photographers are no more formally offenders, as before when
nobody was allowed to sell postcards with modern buildings
without the permission of the architect or his successors
(despite the fact that such situation was quite usual in
practice). Unfortunately, monuments are still not covered by the
introduced amendments.
* Libraries are allowed to keep in electronic format dilapidated works
and those scientific and educational works that have not been
republished for more than 10 years.
«The direct inclusion of the stipulations on the free licenses into the
law is a progressive step not only for Russia, but worldwide. There are
no specific articles on free licenses in other countries’ laws, and
hence these licenses are still in a grey area there. Actually, free
licenses exploit the archaic tercentenary system of copyright, that
always limited the readers’ freedoms in order to allow the authors and
the publishers to earn money, for the opposite goal – to protect the
readers’ right to free access. Therefore, without direct regulation,
there is too vast judicial discretion, and free licenses users are not
protected perfectly. In the Russian law there are no uncertainties like
that anymore. Up to the wording that covers copyleft clauses as well;
they poorly fit the traditional laws.» — explained Wikimedia RU director
Vladimir Medeyko.
Members of Wikimedia RU worked hard on these and other amendments in the
Civil Code. Namely:
* In 2009-2010, numerous letters with the description of the problems
and possible solutions were sent to special committees of the State
Duma.
* In 2010-2011, the directors of Wikimedia RU – Vladimir Medeyko
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Drbug> and Stanislav Kozlovskiy
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ctac> – participated in sessions
of the expert groups of the Committee of culture and the Committee
of information policy and communications of the State Duma.
* In April 2011, during a meeting with then Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev, the representative of Wikimedia RU communicated the
problems and possible solutions to the head of the state.
* In 2011-2012, the experts from Wikimedia RU became part of the
working group of the Ministry of Justice. We worked on the free
licenses and related laws and also participated in various events
organized by the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of
Economic Development, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of
Education and Science.
* In 2012, the representatives of Wikimedia RU participated in
sessions of the State Duma’s working group on intellectual property,
attended the parliament hearings and sessions of the Federation
Council on the information society proceedings.
* From 2010-2014, members of Wikimedia RU participated in more than
200 conferences, seminars, and round tables, where they explained
problems and ways to legalize the work. Hopefully, the foreign
legislators will handle free licenses with the due care, and the
uncertainty will vanish.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petrovskiy_football_stadium_in_SPB.…>
Featured image of Petrovskiy stadium in St. Petersburg that won’t be
deleted now
(“Petrovskiy football stadium in SPB
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petrovskiy_football_stadium_in_SPB.…>”
by Florstein, under CC BY-SA 3.0
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>)
What is the impact of these amendments on the Wikimedia movement?
* more than four hundred
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_FOP_cases/undeleted>
deletion requests due to prior restrictions were cancelled and files
were undeleted;
* Commons will be able to receive thousands
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0…>
of images that couldn’t be uploaded before;
* Now Russia can legally participate in the Wiki Loves Monuments
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/05/wiki-loves-monuments-2014-has-begun/>
contest, which is running <http://wikilovesmonuments.ru/> till the
end of October. Unfortunately, sculptures and monuments are still
not covered by the changed law, but photos of historic buildings are
permitted now and this opens wide opportunities for participation in
the contest.
/Linar Khalitov <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rubin16>,
Wikimedia Russia/
Non voletemene ma io quest'anno mi limito a dar loro la corretta categorizzazione (che oggi ne ho trovato ancora da categorizzare adeguatamente dal 2013...)
----Messaggio originale----
Da: ginevra.esse(a)gmail.com
Data: 6-ott-2014 13.48
A: <wlm(a)wikimedia.it>
Ogg: Re: [WLM] Selezione delle foto di WLM
Ciao Stefano,
in serata dovrei mandare l'e-mail con tutte le istruzioni al
comitato.
Grazie,
Ginevra
Il 04/10/2014 15.19, sabas88 ha
scritto:
Ciao,
quando inizia la selezione delle foto? Ero rimasto al
"comitato promotore"...
Grazie,
Stefano
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