Matt Brown wrote:
On 1/22/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Specific examples would be helpful here. Also, laying charges and being successful in those charges are two different things.
I meant 'charged' as in the monetary sense, not the legal proceedings sense. However, fact is that the US government considers non-US use of its works to be covered by copyright, which makes a large chunk of our free-licensed images not actually free outside the US at all.
This applies whether or not the US government intends to enforce this or is able to.
If the US government itself tried to enforce its copyrights in foreign courts for things that are freely available domestically I can imagine how this would play in the foreign press. :-)
Ec