If the Museum of Israel or indeed anyone else was to sue someone reusing data from a Wikimedia project, then obviously one would hope that the result would endorse the community's view as to the copyright status of that data. If a certain British art gallery told us they'd just discovered that one of their Rembrandts was a Keating; Or if God turns up in Court, proves that he or she is the author and insists on an incompatible copyright, (CC-by-nc-nd if my limited knowledge of western monotheistic religions is correct). Then I would hope we would treat the incident in the same way as any other Goodfaith copyvio, and it would certainly give wikinews a unique perspective if they were to cover the story primarily as a copyright issue.
If a non US court or legislature decided to take a more restrictive stance than US law then I suppose we'd have to add another clause to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Art There are already ones in there for Mexico, Samoa, Côte d'Ivoire and a few others.
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On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva tolkiendili@gmail.com wrote:
In practical terms, what they can do? Wikipedia is hosted in US. Therefore, for a successful takedown, the museum must sue in US.
Well, for one thing, they could sue reusers.
WMF using the work is one thing. WMF telling the rest of the world that the work is public domain and anyone can use it for any purpose without permission, is another.
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