ウィキメディア・イスパニア/URAAに関する理事会への書簡

私たち、Wikimedia Españaのメンバー、スペインでのウィキメディア運動の章、私たちの同僚のウィキメディアイスラエルによって表明された懸念を支持する [その他] URAA。 その規範は、法的な「現状」に基づいて、文化的著作物の著作権をすでに有効になっている期間よりもさらに長い期間延長するという効果をもたらします。

私たちは、製造業、サービス業、農業、その他の人間の活動において、自分たちの仕事の結果から生きることを人々の権利に決して反対しません。 知識、そしてすべての人類によるそれらの使用も保護されなければなりません。 画家、作家、写真家が自分の作品を維持する権利を持っていることは完全に理解できますが、何も作者をしなかった人々が、50人、70人、 五、百年前にも。

Furthermore it has to be taken into account that under the excuse of protecting the authors' rights, an unduly burden has been charged on the users of works of unknown authors, anonymous works or the ones of people who simply did not intend to claim any right at any time at all. The Uruguay Round Agreements were negotiated by 123 countries. Somebody who came across some anonymous work that could be dated somewhen in the last century, could be required to find that person among the more than seven billion people on Earth, to avoid a violation of some state copyright law.

Another aspect that URAA does not pay attention to is the fact that many works remain unattended. When talking about books, it means that they are not reprinted and are not available anymore. But it does not mean that somebody could just reprint them in order to make them known to the public. In that way people can neither buy copies of works nor make them themselves. Who is profiting by that? In other cases, photographs, pictures, rolls of film, etc., just sit rotting -literally in some cases- in storerooms, not only forgotten, also forbidden. Is there any benefit from it?

So, in spite of all legal terms, we, the Wikimedians from Spain, support not just our Israeli companions, but the right of all the Human Race to have a chance to enjoy what has been done by authors. And so we expect the Wikimedia Foundation, as a provider of free knowledge sources, will do their best and fight for the shortest copyright terms possible, restricted as closely as possible to the author's lifetime.

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