On 9/14/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com 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. So which country's laws to adopt? Chinese, French, Arabic.. many languages have this fact. Australia has some looser copyright limits than the US for pre-1955 material, and it doesn't seem right to restrict use of these by applying American laws to them.
While I understand your concern...
I still think the principle of adopting the laws of the country of origin (of the piece of work, not uploader) makes the most sense.
...what do you mean by "country of origin of the piece of work"?
I'm French, I take a picture in Germany of anAmerican work of art that's public domain in the US but not in Germany. Which law applies?
/me is lost.
Delphine