On the 18th of April 2023, Protecting Public Domain Dedications became GA#656!
This proposal has been filed to the General Assembly Civil Rights Board.
NOTE: at 2345 GMT on the 6th of March 2023, this proposal reached quorum with The Village Society's approval, the 62nd all told.
This proposal has been filed to the General Assembly Civil Rights Board.
NOTE: at 2345 GMT on the 6th of March 2023, this proposal reached quorum with The Village Society's approval, the 62nd all told.
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Alexander Smith, Tinhamptonian Delegate-Ambassador to the World Assembly: Article 3 of Foreign Copyright Recognition says that foreign copyrights must be recognised for either twenty years after creation or publication "or the period used by the member nation of origin of the copyrighted work." If somebody waives copyright on their work and the originating state confirms that waiver, then the waiver should be WA-wide.Word count: 301
OOC: Mostly inspired by the ill-fated Public Domain Act... which still got 39% of the vote despite almost universal criticism and a scant drafting period. This is designed to stop things like the situation in the EU where moral rights are immutable and copyright owners therefore cannot release their works into the public domain before the scheduled copyright expiry, while still allowing for rightsholders to voluntarily transfer the copyright of their original works onto a publisher by contract (say).
Protecting Public Domain Dedications
A resolution to improve worldwidehumansapient and civil rights.Category: Civil RightsStrength: MildProposed by: Tinhampton
Convinced that while domestic copyright owners have fundamental moral rights to their work, they should be free to waive those rights before the copyright would normally expire, allowing others to freely share and build on that work, and
Believing that, when copyright of a work is waived by its creators, foreign member states should reciprocate that waiver in the interests of fairness...
The General Assembly hereby:
- defines a "copyrighted work" in a member state as a work created within, and protected by copyright in, that member,
- declares that anybody who owns the copyright of a copyrighted work in the member state it was created in may irreversibly waive the copyright of that work in that member, so long as all the owners of that work's copyright agree to the waiver,
- requires that all members other than the member it was created in immediately and irreversibly waive whatever copyright they may have recognised of any work whose copyright has been waived in the member it was created in pursuant to Article b, and
- encourages members to follow Article c in the case of:
- works created in a non-member state whose copyrights have been waived in that non-member, and
- works created in a member state which does not recognise copyrights for domestically-produced works (so long as all the creators of that work agree to such a waiver), but
- clarifies that this resolution:
- merely sets out legal procedures for members and does not advise any copyright owner to sustain or waive their moral rights,
- does not require any member to institute copyright protections, and
- does not prevent any member from allowing the copyright of a work to be transferred to another entity, so long as all its current copyright owners agree.
