2009/12/31 Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>rg>:
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 18:44 +0000, Douglas
Gardner wrote:
> Out of interest, is it legal to upload these
at 00:00UTC, or at 00:00 where
> WMF is based?
That's a question for an international
copyright lawyer.
Since the servers actually run on UTC; why not ignore these quaint ideas
of adjusting time based on where people are in the world. :-P
Britain is presently on UTC and this is British law, so 00:00:01 UTC
Jan 1 2010 would be right, I should think.
That is correct. In terms of timing only UK is significant since
nothing not already in the public domain in the US is going to enter
the public domain in the US until 2018 (when stuff published in 1923
will hit the public domain).
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geni