I'm not sure what this means for the movement - I'm sure there will
be a
long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of
events in
IP law.
Well, on the one hand wikimedia host works in US, on the other hand,
how many works/articles hosted by wikimedia whom all authors are US
citizens can you find? As I understand it, they can't ignore
international copyrights.
Well, we have this problem that all files we use on Commons have to be
free in both the country of origin (typically 70 years since the death
of the author) and in the US (typically 95 years since creation if after
1923). This means that many of the things created in the 1920s and the
1930s which would be free or soon-to-be-free in the country of origin
are still unfree in the US. In this sense, lifting the limitation that
the file should still be free in the US would help. But I guess we are
not going to relocate the servers to Antigua anyway.
Cheers
Yaroslav
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list
[email protected]
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
