[Foundation-l] PD in Israel

[Luiz Augusto]

If someone is interested, discussion on the same subject at Portuguese
Wikisource:
http://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Esplanada/Problemas_de_dom%C3%ADnio_p%C3%BAblico

On 5/6/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.infosome
> > > > > 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.
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