<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I think it's a great idea!</font><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Alternatively, we could pool in resources with chapters / communities in regions which have minimal copyright restrictions so that they can legally host the content on their websites which will be accessible around the world. I would suggest jurisdictions which comply with the minimum requirements of the TRIPS Convention. I believe that would be author's life + 25 years for less developed countries and author's life + 50 years for other countries including Hong Kong. Copyright protection for literary works in India extends to life + 60 years.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[As a sidenote: There are countries where copyright legislation is non-existent, e.g., Lao PR. The Wikimedia Foundation may not wish that their trademarks be used to facilitate copyright infringements in other territories, therefore an endeavour in these countries could be supported by an individual or community-run with no links to the Wikimedia Foundation.]<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div><div>Yours sincerely,<br><br>Anirudh Bhati<br><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">+855 975 529 803</span><br>Skype: anirudhsbh<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Gautam John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org">gautam@prathambooks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 26 August <a href="tel:2011%2012" value="+49201112">2011 12</a>:52, Shiju Alex <<a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So what you propose is not a new project, but to have servers in India for<br>
> the projects with India related content? Infact most of the projects,<br>
> including commons and meta, have India related content.<br>
> I am not sure how much this will help. But do we have servers outside US<br>
> now?<br>
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</div>Not for India related content, Shiju. Specifically a WikiSource server<br>
of sorts, hosted in India, exclusively for content that is out of<br>
copyright in India only.<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Gautam<br>
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