On Tuesday 14 October 2008 00:24:39 Platonides wrote:
Sebastián González wrote:
What's the situation, then? Can those things
be done, or does the law of
the US apply to all projects regardless of users liking it or not? Can
wikis in non-english languajes be allowed to interpret and write the
legal disclaimer as they see fit, or should a version written or
supervised by the foundation be enforced?
Maybe you're trying to get a point to introduce fair use on eswiki?
"The servers are in USA, local law is not important" has always been an
argument for fair use, and "there is no fair use in {Spain, Venezuela,
Uruguay...}" against it.
Which is anyway not too relevant. That Spanish Wikipedia has to comply
with US laws isn't an excuse for not obeying the copyright laws of
Spain, Venezuela or Argentina, when relevant. *Specially* when you're on
those countries or a great number of your contributors are. Should we
encourage to disobey their local law?? Maybe on certain matters, on
totalitariam regimes... but copyright is not one of those cases.
This is simply not true. From
http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/text_html.jsp?lang=EN&id=1373#JD_ES070_A32
32. It shall be lawful to include in one's own work fragments of the works of
others, whether of written, sound or audiovisual character, and also to
include isolated works of three-dimensional, photographic, figurative or
comparable art character, provided that the works concerned have already been
disclosed and that they are included by way of quotation or for analysis,
comment or critical assessment. Such use may only be made for teaching or
research purposes and to the extent justified by the purpose of the
inclusion, and the source and the name of the author of the work shall be
stated.
35.-(1) Any work liable to be seen or heard in the reporting of current events
may be reproduced, distributed and communicated to the public, but only to
the extent justified by the informatory purpose.