james duffy wrote:
Erik wrote
Wikipedia should be hosted in the country which has the most liberal
policies overall concerning information. Currently, that country is
still
the United States.
Does this mean that wikipedians outside the US can break their own
native copyright rules when loading something onto wiki and are
covered because of US law? Or would the presumption be that as they
had broken native copyright rules in scanning or copying the image,
they or wiki would be liable in their country?
Technically yes, but the offence is in the act of putting the material
up rather than in the fact that it appears there at some later time. In
a situation where this might be an issue, and the upload would be so
valuable to Wikipedia, you could (without counselling an illegal act)
explain your plight to a Wikipedian in a "safe" country who may then be
moved to exercise his own initiative to contribute the picture.
One of the e-text sites includes material that has gone out of copyright
in Australia (where, like in Canada, the copyright term is life +50) on
an Australian server. It warns Americans and others that they could be
violating their country's copyright laws if they view the material.
Ec