2005-02-06
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Agenda and minutes for the Sunday, 6 Feb 2005 conference call
The agenda and minutes for other meetings are available on the Meetings page.
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Agenda
Agenda by Gavin
Orphan works RFC
Review orphan works comment submission site, accompanying blog post & press materials
Open access
Determine our response to Budapest Open Access Initiative and Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO
- Do we like one/both of these?
- Get our schools to sign on?
- Sign on as an organization (as FC.o)?
- Encourage individual members to sign on?
- Is the Geneva Declaration still accepting signatures?
Status updates
Update on progress:
- FC.o signing onto Alliance for Taxpayer Access
- FC.o signing on as a Creative Commons affiliate
- Arthur Chu (via Nelson?)
Minutes
Minutes for Sunday call on February 6, 2005 by Nicholas.
Attendance: Andy, Ben Li, Desirina, Gavin, Jeremy, Mike, Nelson, Nick, Rebekah
Not in Attendance: Elizabeth sorry all I had another meeting for a group project. I think we need to clarify some of the legal issues involved in the orphan works FAQ. I made comments on the Wiki.
Update on the ATA
- awaiting response via e-mail
Creative Commons
- trying to become an affiliate; affiliate site hasn't been updated in a while.
CC P2P idea
- Nelson will respond to Creative Commons, and will cc Gavin (the new contact for CC)
Mozilla
- Still no word back. I (Nick) will keep trying to contact them.
- Are they a good fit? What do we want from them? How could we help them?
Video update
- Jeremy has an FTP server we can upload clips to
- Jeremy will send an e-mail out to the Core with details (done!)
- Mike and Jeremy will talk about editing
- Footage is still due Feb. 13.
- Everyone on the call plans to submit footage!
Orphan works
- Gavin, Amanda and Elizabeth will continue working on text and press release
- Gavin will send a message out to the Announce list when everything's ready
- Who should be the press contact? Who knows the most about orphaned works?
- Nelson and Gavin for the national release
- Local chapter members for the localized press releases
- Still need example comments for site
- Can we get some comments by Tues. or Wed?
- Nick will send an informal comment to Gavin by Wed.
- Ask professors that might have personal experience trying to find rights holders
- Can we get some comments by Tues. or Wed?
- Could we get a visible documentarian to ally up with us?
- We need to promote our page!
- Go to your professors at your law schools, your librarians, your film and art professors
- Send out an e-mail to your local FC mailing list
- Could also be an opportunity to encourage people to write to their legislators about the greater copyright issues we face (should be mentioned in the blog post)
Open Access
- We didn't read what we were supposed to read. Before next Sunday, everyone should read these two SHORT documents:
- Sign on as FC.o, sign on as individual chapters, sign on as individuals?
- We want to blog our concerns about the library declaration, but that we should still move forward.
- We'll revisit this next week -- please come to the Feb. 13 call with your opinion
Discussion of international copyright law
- Discussion of the Berne convention
- We want to blog that we think the Berne restrictions should be the absolute MAX anywhere (less is of course better)
- Do we really agree with this?
- Berne says copyright notice isn't required for protection
- There was much discussion of automatic registration, extremism, how much we should demand, what's reasonable, strategy for getting what we want...
Website
- We need to keep updating the site
- Contact Us page needs to be updated
- Need to update the Chapters page
- Everyone get a freaking blog!