worrisome.
Not unless they first obtain some nukes to help them
enforce their particular notions of IP law.
SV
--- MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Regardless of where a certain text comes from.
It's
copyrighted as
soon as the author puts it on paper in a tangible
form. Some
governments give up their copyrights over this
material, but I think
anything that can be traced to a written source
that's not
specifically released under the GFDL or released
into the PD by it's
author is off limits to Wikipedia regardless where
it comes from.
--Mgm
On 8/18/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> There are problems with that:
> 1) I believe the Wikimedia Foundation would be
breaking Iranian law by
> distributing those material to Iran, that
is,
serving its pages to
> Iranian readers. If it wishes to use the
material, it should block
> Iran from its readership.
> 2) It's not only the government, and other
Iranians may wish to sue
the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Well, although I agree with you about the ultimate
point here (we should
not violate Iranian copyrights, even if it is
legal to do so in the US),
I don't find these two arguments to be the
most
compelling.
First, if we are breaking Iranian censorship laws,
then so be it. (I
have no idea, actually, but I would imagine that
we are.) Merely
"breaking Iranian law" isn't
particularly
worrisome.
Second, I think the point is that such use would
be legal in the US, and
if so, I don't see that Iranians would have
much
of a way to sue us,
except perhaps in Iran, which would be more or
less pointless.
I think the most compelling argument is that we
want to encourage broad
re-use, including in Iran, and if Iranian
copyright laws are more or
less as sensible as the laws of other places,
then
we should follow
those laws, regardless of ongoing disputes
between
the US and Iran which
may prevent an actual treaty.
--Jimbo
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