On 1/22/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/21/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth(a)hi.is>
wrote:
That wouldn't be a bad thing. But remember
that it's not as simple as
'free' and 'non-free'. We have *a lot* of images which are in the public
domain in the United States but not elsewhere.
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.
-Matt
Umm... I'm fairly certain that that's incorrect. Do you have a
citation for any of that? I seem to recall the exact opposite, though
I can't find a citation myself.
The only thing I could see possible is that the United States sued the
non-US corporation in some non-US court. Even so, I'd be somewhat
shocked, and I'd love to see some documentation that that's occurred.
Anthony