[pd-discuss] Anyone in touch with the EFF or its Copyright Watch project?

Wed Jan 19 17:04:04 UTC 2011

Hi everyone,

My contact there is Katitza Rodriguez, former project lead of Creative
Commons Peru. You can reach her at "Katitza Rodriguez" <katitza at eff.org>,

It will be great to reactivate such nice project!

Kind Regards,

2011/1/19 Frédérique Reynertz <fredr15 at yahoo.fr>

> WIPO keeps an updated list of existing copyright laws of all its member
> states at http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/
>
> --- En date de : *Jeu 6.1.11, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com>* a
> écrit :
>
>
> De: Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com>
> Objet: Re: [pd-discuss] Anyone in touch with the EFF or its Copyright Watch
> project?
> À: "Public Domain discuss list" <pd-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
> Date: Jeudi 6 janvier 2011, 17h52
>
>
> Hi John
>
> My contact for this project at EFF has moved on, but I'm in touch with
> the group that funded it. I'll make some enquiries and get back to
> you. Ping me in a fortnight if you've not heard anything.
>
> Cheers
>
> Becky
>
> On 6 January 2011 15:08, John Mark Ockerbloom <ockerblo at pobox.upenn.edu<http://fr.mc290.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ockerblo@pobox.upenn.edu>>
> wrote:
> > A couple of years back, the EFF launched what looked to be a very
> promising
> > site
> > keeping track of copyright laws and developments over time:
> >
> >   http://www.copyright-watch.org/
> >
> > In many cases, this had links to more up-to-date laws than the sources I
> was
> > linking to from my own site
> >
> >   http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html#whatpd
> >
> > and I planned on discontinuing my links there and just point to their
> site.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it looks like their site is no longer being maintained.
>  The
> > news
> > items on the front page are dated 2009, and some of the documents
> mentioned
> > there (like Iraq's new copyright law) never made it to the country page.
> > I wrote to the contact address a few weeks back with a few updates and
> > corrections, and I never heard back from them or saw any signs of change
> on
> > the site.
> >
> > That's unfortunate, because we really could use a reliable source not
> only
> > of current copyright law, but of developments in copyright law over time.
> > These can be essential for building reliable public domain calculators
> > of the sort the OKFN is sponsoring.  (For instance, knowing not just the
> > current state of a country's law, but *when* copyright changes such as
> > term extensions were made, and whether such changes were retroactive
> > or not-- they are in some cases, and not in others-- is important for
> > making reliable PD determinations.)
> >
> > Also, a lot of extensions in copyright in various countries are flying
> > under the radar at the moment-- there are usually multiple countries
> > extending copyright every year, often due to trade pressure from the US
> > or the EU-- and it would very useful to bring this sort of thing to light
> > and hopefully slow or reverse them.
> >
> > It's tempting to immediately say, "Well, let's create a Copyright Watch
> > replacement!"  But lots of us are pretty busy as it is, and I don't want
> > to just have us start yet another information source that then suffers
> > the same fate as http://www.copyright-watch.org/ .  So I'd like first
> > to see whether someone here is in touch with EFF and could see whether
> > their site could be revived, perhaps with some input and help from folks
> > here.
> > If not, then we can consider whether to start a new effort, and how
> > it should work.
> >
> > Joh
> >
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