It has been proposed on Swedish Wiktionary to use a significant amount of
material from a dictionary [1] which allegedly is out of copyright due to
only having been protected under the law of "katalogskydd" ('catalogue
protection') which is in effect for 15 years after publication. The last
edition was published in 1989, the author died in 1986, and the last
reprinting was done in 1999 -- though mere reprints are not supposed to
grant extensions of the time of protection.
Assuming that the assessment about the material falling under the
"katalogskydd" is correct, is that sufficient for WMF to be comfortable
hosting the material, or does US copyright law interfere in any way?
\Mike
(cc-ing to Wiktionary-l to see if anyone there has experience with this
particular situation.)
[1]
http://runeberg.org/svaraord/