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

Thu Aug 5 05:54:31 UTC 2004

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 18:28, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
> 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.

In some countries, works enter public domain 50 years after author's death. 
So, there are wagons of pictures and texts of authors who died between 1934 
and 1954 which are PD in those countries but not PD in the US.