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

Fri Aug 22 13:54:51 UTC 2008

Besides the law for where the servers are, you always have to abide
the law yourself :) If it is not allowed in The Netherlands to do
something, I doubt you can just do it here, because it is on US
servers :) So, multiple laws I guess.

Lodewijk

2008/8/21 Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk op googlemail.com>:
> Which law is valid for Wikipedia? Floridan?
> Ziko
>
> 2008/8/21 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann op 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.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> Ciao Henning
>>
>>
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