[Commons-l] Old works in public domain vs. US Copyright Law

[David Gerard]

On 27/04/07, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've proposed in a private e-mail to Anthere (not yet replied, I think that
> she is busy in others subjects) to create a set of wikis <lang>.non-
> us.wikisource.org hosted outside of the United States ({{derivative}} from
> the Debian non-us software repository [2]) to host works PD-old worldwide
> but copyrighted in the USA. Can a non-us Commons media repository help on
> preventing to delete thousands of images?


That is a *brilliant* idea. Yes, please, definitely.


- d.