[Foundation-l] PD in Israel

Sat Apr 28 10:22:56 UTC 2007

In this case, I think it would be best to cancel all PD-country templates,
as only the PD-US counts. Whether or not a picture is PD in a country
outside the US is irrelevent - as the servers are located in the US.

Regarding Luiz's suggestion - I support it. If this is possible
technically, I am willing to suggest that Wikimedia Israel set up a
Wikimedia server dedicated to contain Israeli PD pictures that are not PD in
other countries. Before suggesting such a move, I would suggest that a
specialized law firm will confirm this PD problem between Israel and the US.

Yoni

2007/4/27, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:

> US copyrights continue even after a work enters the
> public domain in its native jurisdiction.  It is not a
> special US-Israel treaty but a standard US copyright
> issue.  This is problematic on many levels.
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/American_non-acceptance_of_the_rule_of_the_shorter_term
>
> Birgitte SB
>
>
> --- Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We (he.wiki community) have heard there is a problem
> > with PD images which
> > were created after 1946.
> >
> > According to Israeli law, pictures are released to
> > public domain 50 years
> > from the day the picture was taken. This means that
> > images that any picture
> > that was taken by an Israeli before 1957 is in PD in
> > Isreal. I understand
> > that because of some sort of convention between
> > Israel and the US, this rule
> > does not apply in the US (i.e. pictures that were
> > taken between 1946 and
> > 1957 are PD in Israel but not PD in the US.
> >
> > Thus:
> > 1) Is this true? Can a copyright expert with
> > expertise in Israeli law and US
> > law confirm this?
> > 2) If this is true, the commons template
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Israel
> > should be fixed.
> > 3) If this is true, I wonder why commons created PD
> > templates for each
> > country, is the coutry that count is only the US. If
> > an picture need to be
> > PD in US, what does it matter if it is PD in other
> > coutries. And if it does
> > matter - than Template:PD-Israel should *not* be
> > changed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yoni
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