[WikiEN-l] British copyright law != American copyright law

Wed Aug 4 20:41:30 UTC 2004

I think the entire corpus of classified (classified by the governement as
secret, etc.) falls into that category. Much of this material is too
detailed for encyclopedic purposes, but much would be encyclopedic if we
knew it or were free to publish it.

More or less along the same line, considering the national security needs of
the United States with respect to the "War on Terror", certain photographs
and information, for example regarding the details of security precautions
and certain nifty destructive techniques might fall into this category.

Fred

> From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:28:45 -0700
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] British copyright law != American copyright law
> 
> p.s.  I would be interested in gathering examples of content that (a)
> we ought to have in the encyclopedia on editorial grounds but that (b)
> would not be legal for us to host in the United States.
> 
> To my knowledge, virtually all examples of content that is not legal
> in the U.S., but which *is* legal elsewhere, are not really relevant
> to our encyclopedic mission.  The age of consent for models in
> pornographic pictures in the U.S. is 18 in the U.S., but lower in some
> other countries, but we don't publish pornographic pictures so this is
> irrelevant to us.