On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because > we don't feel comfortable saying "Yay! This brilliant author got shot > in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his > books with paying for them!"? If it's the latter, then we can probably > word things sufficiently delicately.
Legal reasons are limited to France. Its mostly a PR thing. Don't want the risk of someone starting a campaign to extend copyright because someone got bombed during WW2. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
