On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:17 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Yes I agree an example of what Wikipedia would look like if this regulation passed is an excellent idea. Could we base it on the geo tags?
It could be quite hard to figure out what exactly is affected (which is one of the ways in which this would harm Wikipedia, assuming the change would be retroactive - and copyright changes usually are - as sifting through all potentially affected images would be a huge undertaking). For anything built in the last 150 years, you would have to figure out who designed it and when that person died. And even if the architect has been dead for more than 70 years, that still does not necessarily mean the building is not affected Gustave Eiffel died in 1923, for example, but the Eiffel Tower is still not free to photograph at night.