Am 16.09.2011 12:57, schrieb emijrp:
2011/9/16 Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelgarte@googlemail.com
That is an legal issue. We do that to comply with the law, since that image isn't in public domain under German jurisdiction.
Who is "we"? And, why does German jurisdiction matter here?
It's called "Schutzlandprinzip" [1]. Sorry that there is no English article about this topic as a whole. But you might read
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_Trade-Related_Aspects_of_Intellect...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization_Copyri...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Industri...