Category: Copyright

Copyright and license notices are missing from several *.tikiwiki.org sites. These are required, or participation and content become legally ambiguous.

Perhaps no one is using copyright management, but it totally doesn't work. The copyrights.php file says it can only be called as an include (and has access checking for that), yet it is in fact called directly by the copyright license page.

Also, there is an access check to see whether the feature is installed that appears to fail completely. As a hack I commmented it out to make it work.

Tied to that, the copyright module doesn't work - it looks for "copyrightpage" as the parameter, when the pagename is sent via "page"

I have no idea whether it was broken in 1.9, but looking at the code, I suspect so.

Currently, German legislature is pondering the implementation of the dreaded article 17 (formerly Article 13) of the EU Copyright Directive into German law. Similar implementations must be under way in all member states.

This Article demands that "platform providers" (as general as this term sounds, this means everyone from Youtube down to a privately run Tiki installation) MUST provide online upload filtering of media that could possibly be copyrighted, which translates into "ALL media" AND a "red button" with which copyright holders are enabled to immediately (!) block content they find and deem infringes their held copyrights.

As the IT magazine "c't" informes, the proposed "German copyright service providers law" describes several stages that user uploaded media MUST go through before they may go online.

Platforms shall sign contracts with copyright organizations such as GEMA (for music) etc. Licensed content may go online directly. Other content will have to undergo online filtering. Depending on filtering results, content may be blocked or the copyright owner may be directly informed of the suspected infringement.

It has been speculated previously, that only VERY large companies like Youtube (Google) will at all be (technically) able to run such filter services, looking at the sheer amount of computing power and I/O bandwidth necessary. Youtube and Co could offer filter services for smaller platforms that lack the ressources, but possibly not free of charge. This has been critized as giving Youtube and Co. huge power and wide control over the internet, given the fact that technically there is no difference between filtering for copyright infringement and filtering for unwanted political content, in other words: Once installed, such filters could easily be used for censorship of the internet. This led to mass protest by young people all over Europe. The ruling conservative party promised angry voters that the implementation of the EU directive would not implement upload filtering, but apparently they broke their promise.

According to the government, filters SHALL be set to "mildly" filter, enabling the majority of content to go online, but mechanisms must be implemented for copyright owners to protest, as well as a "red button" with an immediate (!) takedown effect.

I'm using TikiWiki 2.2. As far as I understand an URL has to be entered into the "license page" field in the Copyright sections of the Admin menu.

In order to show a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ and to display "Creative Commons License" as link text I tried to enter a HTML link using a

{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
a href tag with a target="..." element
{CODE}

and a Wiki link

{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/|Creative Commons License]
{CODE}

Both didn't work as "broken texts" were displayed at the bottom of my wiki page.

The HTML link produced the following output

{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
The content on this page is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0&copyrightpage=HomePage">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
{CODE}

and the Wiki link produced

{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
The content on this page is licensed under the terms of the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0]
{CODE}

Plugin Copyright doesn't work: it does not produce any output, following the syntax provided at wiki edit form > "wiki help".

See attempts to document its usage (looking at the notes inside the code aswell), but no success either....

[http://doc.tikiwiki.org/PluginCopyright]

Wiki Syntax for special characters seems to fail in 1.10 (I can get it in WYSIWYG). Thus, ~np~~169~~/np~ no longer shows the copyright symbol.

The problem appears to lie in TikiLib - parse_data
if (!$simple_wiki and $prefs['feature_wysiwyg'] == 'n') {
$this->parse_htmlchar($data);

Here's this issue - I have WYSIWYG set to Y, but NOT showing by default. It seems that the test should be whether WYSIWYG is actually showing - I have no idea what the variable is.