Geni wrote:
On 8 July 2012 22:31, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
Geni wrote:
I know all this but at the present time the US courts seem to judge by intentions.
Commons does not let us upload a pre-1923 work by a British artist who died in 1960, even though the US courts would say it's out of copyright. Commons attempts to follow all relevant international copyright laws,
Nope. Commons has decided that this is one area where it isn't going to pay attention to non US law.
Are you suggesting that Commons *does* let us upload a pre-1923 work by a British artist who died in 1960? Because that is very much not the case on the Wikimedia Commons to which I contribute.
Likewise, Cary's suggestion that Commons takes a view on "bad law" is clearly not correct, as can be seen over the PD-1996 discussions.
Gaurav Vaidya's suggestion sounds like a good one to me.
Regards, Harry
-- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250).
On 9 July 2012 13:33, Harry Burt jarry1250@gmail.com wrote:
Are you suggesting that Commons *does* let us upload a pre-1923 work by a British artist who died in 1960? Because that is very much not the case on the Wikimedia Commons to which I contribute.
No that has nothing to do with Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. like situations.
On 7/9/2012 5:33 AM, Harry Burt wrote:
Likewise, Cary's suggestion that Commons takes a view on "bad law" is clearly not correct, as can be seen over the PD-1996 discussions.
I did not suggest that 'Commons takes a view on "bad law".' Where did you read that?
- C