Can you please reread http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Interaction_of_United_States_copyright_law_and_non-US_copyright_law ? PD-Art never once talks about anything more than a simple photograph of the art in question, and is thus inapplicable. Further, I don't live in Cote d'Ivoire. If I did, the section I just linked says that Côte d'Ivoirian law would apply.
It would seem that you're ignoring the relevant policy: "When uploading material from a country outside the U.S., the copyright laws of that country and the U.S. normally apply." (Commons:Licensing) I did the restoration work in the UK, and am a UK citizen. I don't see how you can claim that UK law is *less* relevant than "the country of residence of the uploader, and the country of location of the web servers of the website", both of which *explicitly* must be satisfied. So, let's look at "Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag" It doesn't apply. It says right at the top: "This page relates to photographs taken from a distance only. For scans/photocopies, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag." So, let's look at that page. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-scan_tag "The situation is more complex where the original raw scan has been enhanced on a selective basis, for example by means of some careful work in Photoshop to bring out certain details. This type of enhancement, although of course computer-assisted, may require a significant level of personal creative input, and as a result may generate a new copyright for the person doing the work. "Clearly, where the work done is sufficiently extensive that the result has to be treated as a new artistic work (eg where a black and white original is ‘hand-coloured’), the image cannot be uploaded to Commons without a licence from the new copyright owner." So, in other words, I would appear to be right. If we agree that http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-scan_tag applies, it would seem you need to give me credit. Can we agree on this and end it? > > "For example, if a person in the UK uploads a picture that has been > saved off a French website to the Commons server, the upload must be > covered by UK, French and US copyright law." > > The actual commons *policy* is that UK law applies. It even says it > applies if the only interaction with the UK is that someone from the > UK uploaded the thing. > > To argue anything else is to rewrite Commons policy. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
