[Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 17, Issue 14

Sun Oct 29 17:04:02 UTC 2006

>
> On 10/23/06, Fredrik Josefsson <fred_chessplayer at yahoo.se> wrote:
> > On behalf of a user who asked a question on Commons:
> >
> > Question about [[s:en:Template:PD-UN]]
> > <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Template:PD-UN> and
> > its Chinese and French versions hereto. When
> > Wikisource was a multilingual site accepting all
> > languages, it had so many UN Security Council
> > resolutions posted by various users unaware of UN
> > copyright. As the UN Headquarters is subject to the
> > same USA laws, works published there are copyrighted
> > in the same way as works published in the USA.
> >
> > Works published in the USA between 1978 and 1 March
> > 1989 without copyright notices and without subsequent
> > copyright registrations are in the public domain in
> > the USA, but should subsequent copyright registrations
> > be validly made, the works become copyrighted. I would
> > like to ask if these works are acceptable here. This
> > is critical as most, if not all, images at
> > [[:Category:Stamps of United Nations]] may be indeed
> > copyrighted.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > I thought I ask at the mailinglist, see if anyone can
> > provide an answer...
> >
> > / Fred-Chess
>
> This basically seems to be saying that the UN's materials are subject
> to US copyright laws. Which means they don't really fall into a
> special copyright category and should be treated as any other
> copyrighted material (and we probably shouldn't have a PD-UN template,
> which implies that UN material is uniquely PD for any particular
> reason, in the way that works of the U.S. federal government are PD).
>
> The UN seems to consider themselves a regular copyright holder as well
> (http://www.un.org/copyright.htm), which I admit somewhat surprises me
> (I guess they just want the right to control it, since I doubt they
> are trying to turn a profit). In any cases, the reasoning on the
> template looks correct, but all it basically says is "this isn't PD
> unless it is PD for some other reason", which probably means that the
> template is misleading at best for most people.
>
> FF
>

Please explain how the template is probably misleading at best for most
people. The content of [[s:en:Template:PD-UN]] has been based on USA
copyright law and prolonged discussions at English Wikisource when so many
UN Security Council Resolutions have arised the copyright concern. If you
can think of better content, please be more specific. Users outside the USA
must also be aware of the laws in their countries as countries that are party
to <http://www.unesco.org/culture/copyright/html_eng/ucc71ms.pdf> Protocol 2
of the Universal Copyright
Convention<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Copyright_Convention>done
at Paris on 24 July 1971 require copyright protection for works
published for the first time by the United Nations.

Jusjih
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