Yeah, of course. But if the material is in PD in P.R. China, it is in PD all over the world. So I think that would not be a big deal.
jimmy_xu_...@zhwiki 06/25/2009 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Cary Bass <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andre Engels wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jimmy Xu<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> These days at the Village Pump of zhwiki, many wikipedians are > >> arguing about whether Wikimedia project should apply to the US > >> Copyright Law that is where the servers were placed, or the local > >> ones, for us, that is the P.R. of China Copyright Law. These thread > >> came from a disagreement of fair-use text of news in article, so I'm > >> willing to find some (kind of) official resolution. Thanks a lot. > > > > It will have to comply with US copyright law because of the location > > of the servers, however, it would be good to have a policy to adhere > > to local (in your case I would say Republic of China as well as > > People's Republic of China) law too. That way, copyright problems are > > avoided not only for the foundation, but also for the users (the > > people who edit Wikipedia) and the reusers (the people who use > > Wikipedia material as is allowed to them by to the GFDL (or SS-BY-SA) > > license > > Let's not forget Singapore, where Chinese is the most frequently > spoken language at home. > > Cary > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpDmn8ACgkQyQg4JSymDYlKRQCg1O2Jfr7pQ0HinJMKrKRPOzPI > rLIAnR26EHiiVGc+citUTSU5bUJ1/AcV > =VgOu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
