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Description
Since its beginning, Wikipedia has been built with content that is freely licensed or in the public domain. This free licensing strategy has enabled people around the world to collaboratively learn, share, and create. In this session, participants will learn about the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of free licensing policies. We will also review the current state of copyright exceptions for text and data mining, and how the Wikimedia Foundation engages in copyright policy discussions with lawmakers and other stakeholders.
Will include:
Wikimedia's general approach to copyright, https://policy.wikimedia.org/policy-landing/copyright/
Wikicite (http://wikicite.org/) and the Initiative for Open Citations, https://i4oc.org/
Wikimedia’s opinion about the EU Copyright Directive and other recent developments, as outlined here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/28/we-do-not-support-the-eu-copyright-directive-in-its-current-form-heres-why-you-shouldnt-either/
