[Foundation-l] PD-art and official "position of the WMF"

[Matthew Flaschen]

Henning Schlottmann wrote:
> For example: The King James Bible enjoys a perpetual copyright in the
> UK. Only four printers are licensed to print copies and they pay (small)
> royalties. We host a copy of the KJB on wikisource none the less.

That has to do with dubious copyright policy at Wikisource (which I know
is even more lax than this), not Commons.

> Greece has a very questionable provision in the copyright law, under
> which the state claims copyright (!) for each and every antiquities from
> the Greek history. We happily ignore that and show excavations, works of
> art, historic weapons and the like.

> Italy has a similar provision regarding works of art in state-run
> museums. We ignore that as well.

Neither of these are anywhere near as broad as the PD-art issue.

Matt Flaschen