On Thu, September 14, 2006 04:31, Brianna Laugher wrote:
I dislike the idea of this because there is no 1-to-1 correspondence between language and country. en.wp is the Wikipedia of choice for most of the world.
Just to clarify, that is *exactly* the reason I put up the 'status' test page; I was listing jurisdictions against copyright status, not language.
Whilst we can utilise the law in the uploader's location, or in the USA, to determine some things it is absolutely clear that we cannot rely on either of those two locations to give us carte blanche to use that image everywhere in the world; a jurisdictional approach will be the only way, moreso for content re-users than for WMF projects directly.
Alison