[WikiEN-l] U.S. copyright law and European servers

Thu Jul 14 17:25:45 UTC 2005

On 7/14/05, Nyenyec N <nyenyec at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is somewhat related to the ongoing "fair use" discussion.
> 
> AFAIK, there are Wikipedia servers in Paris and Amsterdam.
> 
> Is it OK for Wikipedia to use an image under U.S. copyright law based
> on "fair use" and the given image is hosted on French or Dutch server
> and is served to French or Dutch clients but is copyrighted under
> French or Dutch law?
> Isn't that a copyright violation?
> 
> (I assumed that there is no equivalent of "fair use" in France or in
> the Netherlands, but I really don't have a clue...)
> 
> Wouldn't this be a problem as more and more servers are installed in
> an increasing number of countries?
> 
> Thanks,
> nyenyec
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I recall that the theory is that since they are cache servers rather
than master database servers we should be ok (this is important since
laws about what wikipedia can contain differ from country to country).

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geni