[fc-uk-discuss] Public Domain Burn

[MJ Ray]

Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> MJ Ray wrote:
> > http://www.caves.org.uk/radio/heyphone_copyright.html
> 
> Thanks for the links.
> 
> That second article is very interesting for CC's Public Domain 
> dedication. It looks like UK citizens should say they're waiving their 
> rights rather than say they're dedicating work to the public domain 
> (IANAL, TINLA).

I'm not sure about that. I know differences in public domain law
means that debian-legal prefers a very liberal licence to a PD claim,
but the UKPO-sponsored advice site says:
"If you put material protected by IP into the public domain, e.g.
by publishing or selling goods you can mark it appropriately."
http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/std/faq/question4.htm
but would you trust UKPO to help avoid copyright? ;-)

> I would like to find a "Public Domain Music For Dummies" guide for the 
> UK. It's not that I'm lazy, I just don't want fc-uk to have to do the 
> "we cannot give legal advice" dance that CC-US have to do. My Google-fu 
> is failing me so far.

You're surprised that Google, the World Economic Forum sponsors, is
no good for this? Watch what media companies filter your input!

Starting from http://www.vlib.org.uk/ and following a long trail,
I got to http://www.mediarights.co.uk/ which seems close (but has
heavy copyright).

I can't remember if I mentioned http://www.copyright.bbk.ac.uk/
which might have other publications of interest.

> CC-Sco and CC-EnW would both be good, yes. I'll ask on the CC-UK list. 
> Lawyers would be very useful.

CC-EnW still hasn't announced updating to licence version 2.5,
has an odd section 7 not present in the Generic licences and
copied the accessibility-busting hidden "NOT A PART OF THE
LICENSE" notice problem. I don't know the people involved,
so I just evaluate actions and I don't have faith in them yet.

By contrast, just a few months after launch, CC-Sco had a
good solution to the Digital Restriction Technology problem
and the preference for plain language was very helpful.

Hope that helps,
-- 
MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/