Dunno about the implications for Iranian works, but I will say that these photographers:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_photographers_from_Iran
would be none to happy to find their works being uploaded to English Wikipedia as being in the public domain.
Russavia....
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:41 AM, ??? wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 23/02/2012 19:14, Newyorkbrad wrote:
Can we agree that if the creator of a (reasonably recent) work from one of these countries were ACTUALLY to request that the file be deleted due to a copyright issue, we would grant the request rather than rely on an omission or incompatibility in the copyright treaty regime?
Any one want to explain what the implications of this are in respect to any Iranian work that is published on the internet?
http://www.copyhype.com/2011/09/does-posting-on-the-internet-trigger-us-copy...
In particular, just how much copyright would the work be invested in? Just how wilful would a decision to treat such works as PD be? And would the liabilities be in the Tennenbaum region?
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