From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Haukur Þorgeirsson
Sensible, but the portion of our images which are really free to use anywhere in the world forever may be smaller than you think. Even images created by Wikipedians and released "into the public domain" might be problematic in some jurisdictions if the image creator changes her mind about the licence. The whole concept of permanently licencing away your rights to an image is badly supported in laws around the world. Sometimes there are stipulations that any licencing of your rights to another party can only last for X years.
So how do people sell books in such countries, given that the text, illustrations, design, font and so on must all revert to the creator within X years?
Pete, puzzled