There could be other similar questions, for instance the issue of what "anonymous work" means (a naive understanding will equate that to not knowing who the author is, which is wrong, there have been lawsuits brought by right holders on such matters). In general, copyright law is complicated, and international copyright law is very complicated. In some cases there will be material deleted, and it will be frustrating, and I sympathise, but that's life for you.
The issue keeps coming up because of a culture of seeing Commons as a second-rate project subordinated to the interests of other projects, and culture of forum shopping when not satisfied with the answers received in the usual fora on Commons. It will stop occurring when everybody will have accepted that it is not Commons that causes these questions, and that a certain amount of frustration is unavoidable given the context. -- Rama On 24 June 2014 22:44, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 24 June 2014 20:43, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Rather than making personal attacks, please explain your understanding >> of what the actual issue is here, and why it keeps coming up and >> coming up. >> >> > There are in fact 3 issues here. > > 1)Argentinian copyright resulting in works that are PD in Argentina and > countries that follow the rule of the shorter term with respect to Argentina > > This one keeps coming up because the US and quite a few other countries > don't follow the rule of the shorter term and even those that do don't > follow it consistently. > > 2)Israeli government images that are PD in Israel but have an unclear > status elsewhere. Think crown copyright expired. > > This one keeps communing up since for whatever reason the Israeli > community is unable to ask their government if the government regards the > works as being PD globally. The Brits managed this years ago > > 3)Private Israeli images which are under life+50 terms. > > This one doesn't keep coming up since the number of post 1948 images who's > authors died prior to 1964 is fairly small. I expect this an similar issues > to become a major problem around 2030 assuming no further changes in > copyright law. > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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