Delphine Ménard wrote: In theory, I think that Greg is correct. In practice it is unlikely to be enforceable unless the Hungarian individual makes a big show of uploading this copyrighted Hungarian material. If the Hungarian is posting under a pseudonym it is unimaginable that a US court would enforce a Hungarian court's order to reveal who was uploading Hungarian protected material when that material is not protected in the United States. It's always important to keep in mind the distinction between a strict wording of the law, and situations which would require enormous efforts to prosecute over very little. Cost-effectiveness matters. Ec

Thank you for the answers, so far. Let me rephrase my problem. Hungarian copyright law does have something similar to "fair use" called "szabad felhasználás". This is, however, just like in Germany much more limited than its US counterpart. The interpretation of the law is not always easy, but after some very informal discussions with some Hungarian lawyers and copyright experts, we do know that there are classes of images that you can't distribute without the copyright holder's permission in Hungary. This seems to be the case for album covers, movie posters etc. So far, we permitted these in HuWiki based on the fact, that the servers are located in the US, therefore we can rely the more liberal US "fair use" concept. We marked them with warning messages that these are not free images, and might be deleted in the future. However, it is my understanding that with the Resolution, the Foundation's intent was to close this loophole and make the projects accept rules that don't make it illegal to distribute the content in their home countries without breaking the law. Disclosure: I'm a free content person and would prefer a solution similar to EsWiki, DeWiki and others where they only allow images from Commons. But there are several other editors who would rather have more images and don't really worry about copyright, free content and ease of reuse as long as their articles are well illustrated. We started to draft our EDP, but it would be nice to have this clarification from the Foundation: do they want the projects to collect content that is free to redistribute in their home countries or is it OK, that it doesn't break US copyright laws? Thanks again, nyenyec On 4/5/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: