Florence Devouard wrote:
Daniel Kinzler wrote:
The images could then be used on a wikimedia project with the dual license of PD-UK and addtionally fair use in the USA.
This option already exists. Just upload the image to the english wikipedia (which allows fair use under US terms). Add a tag that says that it's PD in the UK or Europe or whatever, if you like.
-- Daniel
And how do you use the image on other projects ?
Ant
You do not. That is the point: laws and policy regarding fair use is very different on individual projects.
Also, we where talking about the case in which the works are not PD in the US - so, a collection of such unfree works would be illegal in the US. Any US-based project making direct use of such a collection would be an easy target for lawsuits.
You can't magically make non-free images free by moving bits off-shore. Especially not if you want seamless integration. See, saying "there's such and such a project in some place, you can look for images there" is one thing. "you can use this directly from our special UK server to bypass US laws" is something else entirely.
To be honest, I would simply do away with all fair use stuff on wikimedia projects. It makes re-use hard, and it a pain to police. But that's just my personal opinion.
-- Daniel