[Foundation-l] Copyright on Wikisource

[Jimmy Wales]

Furthermore, our *goals* -- neverminding the legal problesm that
Jean-Christophe Chazalette wrote about -- our *goals* include a very
high degree of reusability.  Hosting materials that are subject to
copyright everywhere in the world except in the USA is a mistake on the
simple grounds that such work would not be redistributable anywhere else.

This is why we should take a very very skeptical eye toward the use of
"fair use" even in English.


! Chris Sherlock wrote:
> Jean-Christophe Chazalette wrote:
> 
> As I already told you, hosting material subject to copyright everywhere in
> the world except in the USA is a mistake. The fact some texts by Andr? Gide
> are PD-US because written before 1923 won't impress Gide's heirs. Foundation
> has certainly better things to do with its money than spending it in lost
> cases.
> villy ~~JC
> PS: and please please stop telling that the fact the servers are in the USA
> is good enough to strictly care only for the US law - with the Yahoo case,
> you should know better.  Foundation could be sued right here in Paris and
> should spend money on explaining how it comes that its site, reachable in
> France, offers copyrighted material for free.
> 
> I was under the impression that the U.S. had treaties with France and in
> some circumstances will honour their laws. Is this the case or not?
> 
> Chris
> TBSDY
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