Wikipedia talk:Academic freedom

Examples of academic freedom activities

• WP:SOPA - A sitewide protest against SOPA, which proved to be far more effective than expected. A very similar protest has since been enacted by the Russian Wikipedia against an IP-censoring bill in the Duma.

• Exception granted to editors at WP:Open proxies to evade censorship restrictions.

• Commons:Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag, citing Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., which maintains the right of users to copy faithful reproductions of public domain material despite sweat equity restrictions in their countries of origin. (Normally Commons respects laws of the originating countries, but this is seen as essential to the very existence of a true public domain)

• WMF has endorsed the Access2Research initiative.^[1]

I'm sure this is an incomplete list. Because I'm proposing this as a policy, I've left such discussion out of the text for now so as to keep things as simple as possible. Wnt (talk) 15:14, 6 July 2012 (UTC)