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
There are already ones in
there for Mexico, Samoa, Côte d'Ivoire and a few others.
WereSpielChequers
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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 08:36:43 -0400
From: Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls
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On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
<tolkiendili(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In practical terms, what they can do? Wikipedia
is hosted in US.
Therefore, for a successful takedown, the museum must sue in US.
Well, for one thing, they could sue reusers.
WMF using the work is one thing. WMF telling the rest of the world
that the work is public domain and anyone can use it for any purpose
without permission, is another.
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