[Foundation-l] PD-art and official "position of the WMF"

Thu Aug 21 21:45:02 UTC 2008

Which law is valid for Wikipedia? Floridan?
Ziko

2008/8/21 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net>:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Henning Schlottmann wrote:
>>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>>
>>>> That is not the only alternative.  Commons:Licensing
>>>> (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing) states, "that are
>>>> in the public domain in at least the United States *and* in the source
>>>> country of the work."  However, this change to PD-art policy is a
>>>> significant departure from that.
>>> As have been a few others before. The rule you quote above has some
>>> established exceptions, PD-art is just one of them.
>>
>> Such as?  Even assuming you are correct, we can still choose not to make
>> any more exceptions.
>
> My other posting went to commons-l. Copied from there:
>
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>
> For example: The King James Bible enjoys a perpetual copyright in the
> UK. Only four printers are licensed to print copies and they pay (small)
> royalties. We host a copy of the KJB on wikisource none the less.
>
> Greece has a very questionable provision in the copyright law, under
> which the state claims copyright (!) for each and every antiquities from
> the Greek history. We happily ignore that and show excavations, works of
> art, historic weapons and the like.
>
> Italy has a similar provision regarding works of art in state-run
> museums. We ignore that as well.
>
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>
> Ciao Henning
>
>
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Ziko van Dijk
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