On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:07, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
Cary Bass wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of origin rule rather than the PD-US rule that more often applies on the English Wikipedia.
Yes, of course I didn't make an exception to my comment, regarding whether or not an image was first published in the United States. :-) Foolish me for not pointing out the exceptions; however... this image was published in 1957 without a copyright notice, making it public domain in the US. I've noted that in the deletion discussion on Commons.
Or does this fall under that crazy 1996 law...
It might fall under that, yes. It was published in 1957 without a copyright
notice, but may have been published before that with one. I don't know. Nor do I know whether that matters.
It was regarded as copyrighted in its country of origin in 1996, I believe, if we take that as Israel, because taken in 1948 (plus 50 = 1998); therefore the crazy 1996 law may apply. If the country of origin is Jordan, I think it's 1948 plus 25.
Thanks for saying something about it on the delete page anyway.
Sarah