On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 18:33, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > The servers are in the US and owned by a US organisation which has > minimal overseas assets, which means US law is pretty much the only > one that applies. If you want people in Serbia to be able to re-use > the content, though, you need to make sure it satisfies Serbian law > too. That means you need to make sure it satisfies whichever is the > more restrictive in any given situation. > > I agree that US copyright law is a mess, but we have no choice about > following it. If someone wanted to sue the WMF over copyright > infringement, they would do it in the US, since the US clearly has > jurisdiction and the WMF has lots of seizable assets there. Other > countries may also have jurisdiction, but there isn't much point suing > someone in a court that can't get hold of any of their assets.
My precise question is: Does US law follow local copyright laws in relation to the works published locally and by authors with local citizenship? Or not? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
