A very good idea.
Some servers in the UK would allow us to keep many images which are allowable under the UK's broad FOP provisions, but which are not allowed in the US. Not only public buildings but also 3D 'works of artistic craftsmanship' (eg any sort of 3D toy) which are on permanent display in an area to which the public have access (even on private property). A very nice way to get hold of legal photos of Barbie Dolls and the like. There are quite a few useful toy museums here ...
Michael Maggs
Luiz Augusto wrote:
I'm on a similar problem at the Portuguese Wikisource due to the [[:m:American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term]] (see on [1]).
I've proposed in a private e-mail to Anthere (not yet replied, I think that she is busy in others subjects) to create a set of wikis <lang>.non- us.wikisource.org http://us.wikisource.org hosted outside of the United States ({{derivative}} from the Debian non-us software repository [2]) to host works PD-old worldwide but copyrighted in the USA. Can a non-us Commons media repository help on preventing to delete thousands of images?
foundation-l have a discussion started today based on the same problem: [3]
[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#PD-old_non-us..._I.27m_... http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#PD-old_non-us..._I.27m_confused
[2] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US
[3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-April/029741.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-April/029741.html