[Wikisource-l] Copyright issues on Wikisource

Fri Nov 3 23:12:27 UTC 2006

Hi,

Luiz Augusto wrote:
> If a policy for all Wikisources is going to be based in the USA laws and
> ignore all international agreements, lots of works that are in public
> domain in anothers countries but not in the USA needs to be deleted.
> Lots of works from brazilians and portugueses writers that died more
> than 70 years... Is more simple to respect the copyright from the contry
> of origin (and make attempts to change the stupid 100 years after death
> law in the USA).

To be public domain elsewhere, but not in USA, it should be a work from
a non US author published first in USA after 1922 and the author should
be dead for more than 70 years. I don't know if such a case exists, but
I doubt it.

So practically if only US law is used, it will be beneficial to all.

Best regards,

Yann
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