[Foundation-l] PD in Israel

[Yoni Weiden]

P.S.
If no answer is given, we will continue to upload Israeli PD images
according to it's status in Israel.
Yoni


2007/4/27, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com>:

>  Hi,
>
> We (he.wiki community) have heard there is a problem with PD images which
> were created after 1946.
>
> According to Israeli law, pictures are released to public domain 50 years
> from the day the picture was taken. This means that images that any picture
> that was taken by an Israeli before 1957 is in PD in Isreal. I understand
> that because of some sort of convention between Israel and the US, this rule
> does not apply in the US ( i.e. pictures that were taken between 1946 and
> 1957 are PD in Israel but not PD in the US.
>
> Thus:
> 1) Is this true? Can a copyright expert with expertise in Israeli law and
> US law confirm this?
> 2) If this is true, the commons template
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Israel should be fixed.
> 3) If this is true, I wonder why commons created PD templates for each
> country, is the coutry that count is only the US. If an picture need to be
> PD in US, what does it matter if it is PD in other coutries. And if it does
> matter - than Template:PD-Israel should *not* be changed.
>
> Thanks,
> Yoni
>