Great move WMIL.
This is I think an excellent example of great chapter work.
Greetings Ting
Am 29.12.2013 06:19, schrieb Michal Lester:
Hi,
As some of you know, images are been deleted in the past month from WikiCommons due to a change in the ruling of the United States Supreme Court. (The case of Golan v. Holder, confirming the legality of the URAA, has restored copyright status to foreign works that were placed in the public domain after January 1, 1996). Court ruling brought WikiCommons volunteers to delete images that do not meet the new guideline. Consequently, Israeli images were deleted even though the Israeli law releases them into the public domain.
We wrote to the legal department of the Foundation to alert about the situation. The department has posted a legal opinionhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Use_of_Foreign_Works_Restored_under_the_URAA_on_Commons on the subject following our inquiry.
WMIL is going to turn to the Minister of Justice and seek for written statement that confirm that images released by the State of Israel to the public domain may be used freely around the world. We hope that WikiCommons operators rely on the letter and will not delete more images.
It will be great if other chapters will update if they encountered the problem and what you intend to do.
All the best
Michal