On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:56 AM, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Do we really want every contributor to be an expert in the copyright laws of any particular nation that might have a company exerting some obscure claim?
We want every contributor who is going to be submitting non-original content (whether texts for Wikisource or images for Commons etc) to know about US copyright law, and where applicable, copyright law for what you might call the 'primary' country for the language of their local project.
So your question rephrased for these circumstances is do we want French contributors to be expert in French copyright law when contesting copyright claims by French companies, and the answer is yes.