[WikiEN-l] Google Earth copyright (now that you bring it up)

Sun Jan 22 01:55:47 UTC 2006

Peter Mackay wrote:
>>From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
>>[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Haukur 
>>Þorgeirsson
> 
>  
> 
>>Sensible, but the portion of our images which are really free 
>>to use anywhere in the world forever may be smaller than you 
>>think. Even images created by Wikipedians and released "into 
>>the public domain" might be problematic in some jurisdictions 
>>if the image creator changes her mind about the licence. The 
>>whole concept of permanently licencing away your rights to an 
>>image is badly supported in laws around the world. Sometimes 
>>there are stipulations that any licencing of your rights to 
>>another party can only last for X years.
> 
> 
> So how do people sell books in such countries, given that the text,
> illustrations, design, font and so on must all revert to the creator within
> X years?
> 

Presumably the creator never licensed the material to anyone else
without entering a proper, monies-exchanged-type contract.

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