[Commons-l] Multi-Licensing on multiple projects

Thu Sep 14 13:12:35 UTC 2006

On 9/14/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dislike the idea of this because there is no 1-to-1 correspondence
> between language and country. en.wp is the Wikipedia of choice for
> most of the world. So which country's laws to adopt? Chinese, French,
> Arabic.. many languages have this fact. Australia has some looser
> copyright limits than the US for pre-1955 material, and it doesn't
> seem right to restrict use of these by applying American laws to them.

While I understand your concern...

> I still think the principle of adopting the laws of the country of
> origin (of the piece of work, not uploader) makes the most sense.

...what do you mean by "country of origin of the piece of work"?

I'm French, I take a picture in Germany of anAmerican work of art
that's public domain in the US but not in Germany. Which law applies?

/me is lost.

Delphine
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~notafish