We do not game copyright laws in this way.
You can see an example with Heinrich Hoffman's photographs: the USA
consider them to be in the Public Domain in apparent disregard for
international law on copyright; these photographs are protected by
copyright in Germany, where they are the object of
That's a valid point, but I'm coming at it from different direction:
works that are public domain in the country of origin but not in the
US. I don't view that as gaming the copyright system, as I'm based in
the UK and I don't view Wikimedia as an American website/set of
projects. If a UK
The WMF is accepting my files? I thought that they were simply
providing a service, and it was the community at large that was
accepting the files. ;-)
That said, the formal side of Wikimedia is not just the WMF. We have
a growing network of chapters around the world, who are legally based
My apologies if gaming the system has overly negative connotations,
I am worried of having been unwittingly insulting.
Are there concrete examples of works that are in the Public Domain in
their county of origin but not in the USA? I was under the impression
that under the Bern Convention, a work
AFAIK, the WMF exposes itself in US law by hosting and publishing files
from a Florida site (I'm not sure what responsibility the chapters may
have, but I don't think Commons is related to any of them). They simply
have the right to protect themselves by requiring that all hosted files
be ok
On 9 February 2010 10:36, Rama Neko raman...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there concrete examples of works that are in the Public Domain in
their county of origin but not in the USA? I was under the impression
that under the Bern Convention, a work was not protected longer than
it is in its country
If the images were to be uploaded to a Commons server then it would require
a number of additional questions at the time of uploading we already have
enough problems in getting people to follow the current requirements and
selecting the appropriate license. I've spent time in getting an
