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Russian Civil Law Changed By Wikimedia

Posted by Unknown on from the sudden-outbreak-of-sane-copyright-law dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Changes to the Russian Civil Code, which include the recognition of open licenses, the right for libraries to generate digital copies of certain works, were now signed by the Russian President and come into force on October 1st. According to Wikimedia-RU member Linar Khalitov, 'these changes are a result of a lot of hard work on behalf of Wikimedia-RU ... proposing, discussing and defending amendments to the Code.'" The changes are pretty major: licenses no longer require a written contract to be enforced, and published works can no longer be retracted. The two combine to give Wikipedia RU authors stronger author rights. Pictures of architectural objects can be used freely without the permission of the architect, which will allow many images that were pulled from the Wikimedia Commons to return, and new projects to add pictures of monuments to go forward.

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  1. Well done, Vladimir! by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This more than makes up for invading a neighboring country - I mean another one - and nearly starting WW3!

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    1. Re: Well done, Vladimir! by lgw · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Russia is a regional power. They will certainly start a war, but it would take insanity on our part that matches or exceeds Putin's to turn it into a world war.

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    2. Re: Well done, Vladimir! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Russia is a regional power.

      So was Austria-Hungary...

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    3. Re:Well done, Vladimir! by H0p313ss · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And Kosovo was an autonomous region in Serbia for hundreds of years. How many bombs did USA and its vassals drop on Yugoslavia to change that?

      Unless there have been mass executions of Russian ethnic civilians in Crimea that I've missed, it's not really a fair comparison is it?

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