The best example is Gandhi

Many of his works, and translations of them, are not public domain in
the United States.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Mohandas_K._Gandhi

http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi

In this case, much content that reside in many Indic language wikisources, few images in Wikimedia Commons, and may be some works in English wikisource are also against US copyright law. So how can we overcome this issue?

I think this issue is applicable to more countries, not only India. 



On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:11 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Specifically a WikiSource server
>> of sorts, hosted in India, exclusively for content that is out of
>> copyright in India only.
>
> As far as I know, "the content that is that is out of copyright in India now
> "can be uploaded to the existing wikisources.
>
> Can you cite some examples for which this is not possible?

The best example is Gandhi

Many of his works, and translations of them, are not public domain in
the United States.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Mohandas_K._Gandhi

http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi

--
John Vandenberg

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