Comment Re:How exactly is this a bad thing? (Score 1) 533
There is a great flaw in the Italian copyright law. It was written in 1941, it does not even undertand the meaning of BSD, GNU, and other open licenses.
Now, publishing under BSD is not forbidden, but to distribute legally the work on CDs in Italy you must pay a small levy to SIAE (Italian Authors and Editor Society). That does not make any sense. That monwy will go to other authors.
The European union has started reconsidering these matters. A change to this law is expected soon.
Now, publishing under BSD is not forbidden, but to distribute legally the work on CDs in Italy you must pay a small levy to SIAE (Italian Authors and Editor Society). That does not make any sense. That monwy will go to other authors.
The European union has started reconsidering these matters. A change to this law is expected soon.
