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

Sun Jan 22 14:30:14 UTC 2006

> If I remember correctly, another category is US government works.  The
> US government has before asserted that just because US law requires
> works of the US government be freely available within the US does not
> mean, in their view, that the works are PD elsewhere.  They have
> certainly, as I recall, charged non-US corporations for using such
> data.

Exactly, that was one of the cases I was thinking about. A large
proportion of Wikipedia's free images fall under this case. It could be an
even bigger problem than different fair use laws for someone publishing
Wikipedia content outside the United States.

Regards,
Haukur