Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:40:37 +0100 From: geni geniice@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Court: Congress can't put public domain back        into    copyright To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID:        f80608430904061240m5398d13fq389e02b63a5baa71@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

2009/4/6 Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net:

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Hello,

This will have implications for Commons too.

Regards,

Yann

No since commons respects the copyright of the country of origin.

-- geni

I consider the answer no or yes depending on the copyright status of the country of origin. If published outside the USA only, without complying with the US formality and thus once considered in the public domain in the USA before the URAA restoration, it may benefit Commons if now PD in the source country even if still copyright-restricted at home in 1996 and then caused what I would call as the "American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term".

This will have much more implications for Wikisource as some works hosted at Canadian Wikilivres may be able to be sent back to Wikisource if this ruling opinion becomes final.

Jusjih