Russian Civil Law Changed By Wikimedia

Posted by Unknown on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:38AM 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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People crushing on Russia.... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-20 04:55 · Score: 0, Troll

...... Russia crushes people with sence! They took over Crimea without a fight, unlike the west who frees an area by destroying it and enforcing it's own will on it! Russia annexed an area without this..... sure..... there is a bit of side details, but still...... they are doing it better then any western country so far!