Yeah, of course. But if the material is in PD in P.R. China, it is in PD all over the world. So I think that would not be a big deal.
Jimmy_xu_wrk@zhwiki 06/25/2009
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Andre Engels wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jimmy Xuxu.jimmy.wrk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all, These days at the Village Pump of zhwiki, many wikipedians are arguing about whether Wikimedia project should apply to the US Copyright Law that is where the servers were placed, or the local ones, for us, that is the P.R. of China Copyright Law. These thread came from a disagreement of fair-use text of news in article, so I'm willing to find some (kind of) official resolution. Thanks a lot.
It will have to comply with US copyright law because of the location of the servers, however, it would be good to have a policy to adhere to local (in your case I would say Republic of China as well as People's Republic of China) law too. That way, copyright problems are avoided not only for the foundation, but also for the users (the people who edit Wikipedia) and the reusers (the people who use Wikipedia material as is allowed to them by to the GFDL (or SS-BY-SA) license
Let's not forget Singapore, where Chinese is the most frequently spoken language at home.
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