Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law
Techdirt. Stories filed under "fair use" 2013-07-23
Summary:
[by Ernesto, Link (CC-BY)] Finland is the first country in the world in which Parliament will vote on a “fairer” copyright law that has been crowdsourced by the public. The proposal, which obtained the required 50,000 Finnish votes just a day before the deadline, seeks to decriminalize file-sharing and legalize the copying of items that [...]