[Commons-l] Public domain worldwide?

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Matt Brown wrote:
> On 4/29/06, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My own proposal for policy on this point was to go with the laws of
>> the country of the original author.
> 
> Should the nationality of the author take precedence over the place of
> first publication?
> 

To be safe, we should use whatever is the most restrictive - ie. if it's
PD-old in one but life+70 still applies in another, we wait. I wish it
was still "25 from publication unless extended" though - stupid Disney...

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