[WikiEN-l] Google Earth copyright (now that you bring it up)

[Peter Mackay]

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at 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?

Pete, puzzled