Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
You can't have copyright over something
in one country, while somebody else has copyright over it in others
(of course what are your rights here is country-specific)
I don't think that this is literally true in all cases. It may be
true in the general case, due to treaties or something like that.
Oh, and we want Wikipedia to be distributable in
Europe too, don't you
remember ?
Yes! That's very important, and so we need to follow the most
conservative policies that we can, so long as they don't materially
interfere with our encyclopedic and NPOV mission.
And I don't really have to care about US laws at
any point,
only server owners has ;)
Right! We each have to follow our own laws, and where they may
conflict, we should be sensitive to both parties when we can.
--Jimbo