"Wikimedia RU" formulated proposals to improve the GK4

I think everyone knows that the laws in Russia are imperfect. This fully applies to copyright law, the notorious GK4.
To improve the current situation, the Wikimedia RU Foundation (a local branch of the Wikimedia Foundation, which provides the material basis for the free Wikipedia encyclopedia ) formulated a number of proposals for improving the legislative framework, which are designed to facilitate the creation and dissemination of free knowledge.


A total of 10 proposals were formulated (there is only squeeze, the argument can be found in the full text of the proposals):

1. Legislative securing of free licenses - securing at the level of law the ability to publish their works under the terms of free licenses ( Creative Commons , GNU FDL , etc.)
2. The introduction of freedom of panorama - fixing the appearance of freely accessible objects and the distribution of their own work without any conditions, without the consent of the copyright holder. A typical example is photographing buildings for distribution under free licenses.
3. Changing the validity period of copyright for certain types of photographs - separation at the law level of photographs into art, documentary and trivial (passport photographs, for example) with various conditions for protecting authors' rights.
4. Changing the validity period of copyright in audiovisual works - calculating the term of protection from the day the movie was released on the screen, and not from the day the authors die. It sounds absurd, probably, but one of the first films “Arrival of a Train” (1896) is still protected by copyright, as the eldest of the Lumiere brothers died in 1954.
5. Changing the term of copyright for works of science - it is proposed to consider scientific publications as a special class of works and allow free non-commercial use a year after publication; It is also proposed to provide free access to the texts of abstracts and dissertations.
6. Free use of the work for informational, scientific, educational or cultural purposes, regardless of the method of reproduction - current legislation actually prohibits Fair use in electronic form.
7. The lifting of the ban on the digitization of funds by libraries and archives - now the creation of copies of works without the consent of the author is permissible, but not in electronic form.
8. Transfer to the public domain of works belonging to the Government of Russia and other state bodies of the Russian Federation - ensuring the free use of works that were created at the expense of taxpayers.
9. Repeal of provisions additionally extending the validity period of copyright in works - cancellation of several provisions that extend the term of copyright. For example, the classic novel Master and Margarita is not in the public domain only because it was published in 1966–67, 26 years after the author’s death, and the rights will expire only in 2038.
10. Admissibility of fair use and mitigation of punishment for violations - expansion and clarification of the provisions on fair use, the abolition of the minimum amount of compensation and criminal liability for violation of copyright and related rights.

At the moment, the proposals are undergoing a final proofreading and will soon be sent to the Presidential Council on the codification and improvement of civil law and other state organizations.