2008/9/8 Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:23 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/7 Kevin Wong wikipedianmarlith@gmail.com:
Well, Wikipedia is for the copyrighted- fair-use stuff. Commons needs to be as free as possible in that you can do anything you want with that media.
The image is free see the deletion debate.
I think the argument here is based on the fact that some feel the deletion debate does not entirely consist of people familiar with the wrinkles of US copyright law.
My experience with this kind of thing tells me that US copyright law is horribly unclear on this kind of topic, especially since there is little case law. Many Internet arguments about this kind of thing face off people who apply mathematical logic to the law and conclude that something is legal against those who say "Wait a minute, law is not logic and statute is not case law; this could go either way".
-Matt
It could but until we find some case law that goes against statute law we accept state law.
This falling into the public domain due to failure to include a copyright notice is hardly some obscure oddity with no previous application. Entire films have hit the public domain due to that. No reason to think that trailers are any different.