On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:00:50 -0800, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
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I'm raising the issue here, because I know many people on foundation-l care about issues surrounding copyright and reuse, and a change like this could set a precedent for what we ultimately do on the other projects.
-Robert Rohde
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027373.html
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights#Usage_Option_1_Suppor...
[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights#RfC:_What_to_do_with_...
Is anybody aware of the situation on Commons with these countries? Should I alert Commons on this discussion?
An obvious argument against treating works from these countries as PD would be that soon or later the countries will sign the treaties and the works would have to be removed from WM projects. At the same time, having them temporarily as PD would obscure usual work on getting free media such as stimulating taking photos of free buildings, contacting authors for permissions etc.
Cheers Yaroslav