Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls - if someone was to sue our reusers

If the Museum of Israel or indeed anyone else was to sue someone reusing data from a Wikimedia project, then obviously one would hope that the result would endorse the community's view as to the copyright status of that data. If a certain British art gallery told us they'd just discovered that one of their Rembrandts was a Keating; Or if God turns up in Court, proves that he or she is the author and insists on an incompatible copyright, (CC-by-nc-nd if my limited knowledge of western monotheistic religions is correct). Then I would hope we would treat the incident in the same way as any other Goodfaith copyvio, and it would certainly give wikinews a unique perspective if they were to cover the story primarily as a copyright issue. If a non US court or legislature decided to take a more restrictive stance than US law then I suppose we'd have to add another clause to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Art There are already ones in there for Mexico, Samoa, Côte d'Ivoire and a few others. WereSpielChequers