[Foundation-l] PD in Israel

[Bryan Tong Minh]

Related to this, there is a discussion on Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Images_PD_outside_of_the_U.S._but_not_PD_in_the_U.S._.28URAA_restoration.29

Maybe somebody from the Foundation is willing to comment there?

Bryan

On 5/6/07, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any possibility that the foundation represents it's insight on the
> PD-Israel issue? I want to be 100% sure that there are images that are PD in
> Israel but not PD in the US before I delete such images from the Hebrew
> Wikipedia.
> yoni
>
>
> 2007/5/1, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com>:
>
> > On 5/1/07, Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Luiz Augusto a écrit :
> > > > On 4/28/07, Ryan Dabler <zhaladshar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> On 4/27/07, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> I'm on a similar problem at the Portuguese Wikisource due to the
> > > >>> [[:m:American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term]] (see
> > on
> > > >>> [1];
> > > >>> but the problem is on PD-old-70 and posthumous works).
> > > >>>
> > > >>> 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.
> > > >>
> > > >> Why not just upload the texts to http://wikilivres.info ?  The
> > servers
> > > for
> > > >> the site are located in Canada, and it was created by
> > > [[s:fr:User:Yann]].
> > > >> It seems like we would just be recreating the wheel here with this
> > > >> proposal
> > > >> when a good alternative already exists.
> > > >
> > > > Yann has a really good initiative setting up the wikilivres.info some
> > > > mounths ago. But unfortunatelly this have limitations. Wikilivres
> > > currently
> > > > is so much like the Wikisource at the beginning: a ambitious
> > > multilingual
> > > > project in a single wiki site. I know the Wikisource project since
> > 2004
> > > > (when I have created my first user account on wikisource.org/wiki:
> > > Lugusto,
> > > > User ID 568). But I'm a active editor on Wikisource only since April
> > > 2006.
> > > > This isn't a coincidence. Is so much confuse to work in a project like
> > > > Wikisource on a multilingual wiki. The user interface is one, you try
> > to
> > > > search from a writer and you get a page in spanish, you try to read a
> > > text
> > > > and get a page on italian...
> > >
> > > At the beginning, I only thought about hosting documents in French. Then
> > > I found that there are documents in English which might be usefully
> > > hosted there. So now the objective it is to change Wikilivres to a fully
> > > multilingual wiki. Just now, I have doubt about the usefulness to have
> > > several subdomains seeing the number of users and documents, but I am
> > > open to changes. Anyway you are much welcome to start a Portuguese
> > > section there. And please come to discuss on #wikilivres on Freenode or
> > > put suggestions on the wiki itself, as this is a bit offtopic here. ;o)
> >
> >
> > I aren't telling to you change wikilivres.info. It is a functional wiki
> > for
> > theirs purposes. I've only replied to a question ;)
> >
> > > Anyway, is impossible to link to a page at the wikilivres.info from
> > > > Wikipedia, Wikibooks (or from Wikisource itself) without using a
> > > external
> > > > link. This isn't userfriendly.
> > >
> > > A solution was proposed for that.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for all that have mentioned the interwiki map. This is new to me
> > and
> > I've made a request for addition.
> > _______________________________________________
> > foundation-l mailing list
> > foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
> >
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>