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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Haukur
Þorgeirsson
Sensible, but the portion of our images which are
really free
to use anywhere in the world forever may be smaller than you
think. Even images created by Wikipedians and released "into
the public domain" might be problematic in some jurisdictions
if the image creator changes her mind about the licence. The
whole concept of permanently licencing away your rights to an
image is badly supported in laws around the world. Sometimes
there are stipulations that any licencing of your rights to
another party can only last for X years.
So how do people sell books in such countries, given that the text,
illustrations, design, font and so on must all revert to the creator within
X years?
Presumably the creator never licensed the material to anyone else
without entering a proper, monies-exchanged-type contract.
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