Polish Prime Minister Says Things Funded With Public Money Should Be In The Public Domain
from the wow dept
Slashdot points us to a report that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has declared that anything funded with public money will be in the public domain (Google translation from the original Polish). It sounds like there was some hedging on this, as he perhaps suggests that they still need to classify what exactly will be public, but it's encouraging. It's also not entirely clear from the report if this just refers to state documents, or also the output of research funded by the state. Hopefully we'll get some clarification soon.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Cool. I'm starting up my own aircraft manufacturing firm. Who's with me???
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Of course our product would be obsolete by then, because the "others" wouldn't just sit still. But it's all free right? So we're good (well, I would be. You would just be about a Billion � lighter.).
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re Airbus A380 Superjumbo not a bad idea.
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Re: re Airbus A380 Superjumbo not a bad idea.
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Full recording of the meeting (in Polish):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8nLz94oQ8
The quote starts at 24:47
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It's yet not fully what will be considered public information, but the talk was about openness of government and other related bodies, no word about patents and such.
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let us not forget
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"The copyright shall not cover:
(...)
2) official documents, materials, logos and symbols
(...)"
Yes, art is no different.
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Yup!
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Gasp!!!
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