[Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?

[Delirium]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>   
>>  The short answer is that it depends on the country. Bridgeman-like rules
>>  hold in the United States, Germany, Poland, Japan, and Switzerland,
>>  among other countries, but do not hold in all countries.
>>     
>
> On this subject, can please someone site good law  from outside of the
> US (case law, as applicable, based on the jourisdiction) that clearly
> contradicts the ruling in Bridgeman v. Corel?
>   

According to this summary (in French, sorry), cases in France have gone 
both ways:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Jastrow/PD-art

There also seems to be near-unanimous agreement among experts that a 
case in the UK would be decided the opposite of Bridgeman v. Corel, but 
it doesn't seem to have actually come up. Maybe everone's so sure of it 
that nobody bothers to try to challenge it.

-Mark