Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
You can't have copyright over something in one country, while somebody else has copyright over it in others (of course what are your rights here is country-specific)
I don't think that this is literally true in all cases. It may be true in the general case, due to treaties or something like that.
Oh, and we want Wikipedia to be distributable in Europe too, don't you remember ?
Yes! That's very important, and so we need to follow the most conservative policies that we can, so long as they don't materially interfere with our encyclopedic and NPOV mission.
And I don't really have to care about US laws at any point, only server owners has ;)
Right! We each have to follow our own laws, and where they may conflict, we should be sensitive to both parties when we can.
--Jimbo