Re: [PGCanada] Introductions, etc.: Comprends pas: Please explain.
Qu'est-ce que vous ne comprenez pas? Serbian copyright law is, right now, life+50, but are they under political pressure (internal or external) to "harmonize"? If they eventually join the EU, presumably they will be forced to "harmonize" to life+70, so how close are they to EU membership, realistically? In other words, would building a life+50 public domain "library" in Serbia, under Serbian law, be a sound location in the long term? Sounder or less sound than Canada? Or kinda like building on beachfront in Florida or the San Andreas fault? None of this is to undermine the incredible achievement at DP-EU; I wish my Cyrillic proofing skills were more up to scratch! [PGCanada] Introductions, etc.: Comprends pas: Please explain. jiva das jivadas3 at yahoo.ca Tue Nov 9 19:17:54 PST 2004 "Wallace J.McLean" <ag737 at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:Also: How vulnerable is Serbia to the life+50+more movement? What happens if it joins the European Union, and how close is EU membership, if at all?
"Wallace" == Wallace J McLean <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> writes:
Wallace> Qu'est-ce que vous ne comprenez pas? Serbian copyright Wallace> law is, right now, life+50, but are they under political Wallace> pressure (internal or external) to "harmonize"? If they Wallace> eventually join the EU, presumably they will be forced to Wallace> "harmonize" to life+70, so how close are they to EU Wallace> membership, realistically? I think that Serbia joining EU will be in the far future. There are no discussions currently, next joining states will be Bulgaria and Romania in few years, Turkey is under discussion for within 14 years, former Yougoslavia states (except Slovenia, that is in EU now) and Albania will be even later, Serbia and Albania will be the last. Disscussions will not start before a Kosovo settlement and stabilization. 25 years may be a fair guess. Wallace> In other words, would building a life+50 public domain Wallace> "library" in Serbia, under Serbian law, be a sound Wallace> location in the long term? Sounder or less sound than Wallace> Canada? Or kinda like building on beachfront in Florida Wallace> or the San Andreas fault? I'd say as sound as Canada, at least for the near future. With the advantage that people are seriously working on that since more than one year. Should Serbia fall before Canada, moving everything to Canada should be possible. And the converse of course. Currently, DP-EU _IS_ DP+50. Some +50 books have been prepared, and the clearance rules officially allow life+50 (the procedures are not yet established, the site is just now at the end of the experimental phase and starting officially). The site even allows copyrighted books under the condition that owner of the copyright grants unrestricted redistribution. Carlo
Carlo Traverso <traverso@dm.unipi.it> writes
"Wallace" == Wallace J McLean <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> writes:
Wallace> Qu'est-ce que vous ne comprenez pas? Serbian copyright Wallace> law is, right now, life+50, but are they under political Wallace> pressure (internal or external) to "harmonize"? If they Wallace> eventually join the EU, presumably they will be forced to Wallace> "harmonize" to life+70, so how close are they to EU Wallace> membership, realistically?
I think that Serbia joining EU will be in the far future. There are no discussions currently, next joining states will be Bulgaria and Romania in few years, Turkey is under discussion for within 14 years, former Yougoslavia states (except Slovenia, that is in EU now) and Albania will be even later, Serbia and Albania will be the last. Disscussions will not start before a Kosovo settlement and stabilization. 25 years may be a fair guess.
Accession for the western Balkan states is likely to be sooner than that. Croatia, already officially a candidate, possibly as soon as 2007 the rest, all still applicants, seem likely to get candidate status early next year and to join in the 2010-2015 period. Unlike with Turkey there is little opposition to the membership of the western Balkan states, so negotiations are likely to prove relatively straightforward, joining before Turkey is certainly possible. -- Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm Brett Paul Dunbar To email me, use reply-to address
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