Looks like no decision has been made by the Foundation regarding such
images. Please notify other projects what a decision has been reached.
Theretofore, I shall follow the local copyright law as {{PD-Israel}} states.
I expect Commons to act the same way and not delete such images until the
Foundation says otherwise.
Yoni
2007/5/7, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>et>:
Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
Related to this, there is a discussion on
Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Images_PD_outside_…
Maybe somebody from the Foundation is willing to comment there?
Bryan
On 5/6/07, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Is there any possibility that the foundation represents it's insight on
the
>PD-Israel issue? I want to be 100% sure that
there are images that are
PD in
>Israel but not PD in the US before I delete
such images from the Hebrew
>Wikipedia.
>
Another thing that one might consider in this is the ruling at
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Itar-Tass_Russian_News_Agency_v._Russian_Kuri…
This did rule that ownership of a copyright was ruled by the law of the
country of origin. Ownership of a copyright also has duration of
copyright as one of its elements. Thus it can be argued that the other
country's duration should apply. It is not the Berne Convention the is
affecting the duration of copyright, since that would generate a life +
50 years situation rather than the longer period that exists in many
other countries.
Another interesting argument that can be made for restored works is that
they would be granted the protection available to US works on the basis
of the law at the time they were published. A US work published in 1924
had to have its copyright renewed in 1952. The same should apply to
restored foreign works.
Ec
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