[Foundation-l] Stroop report

[Delirium]

This came up in the discussion, but since the German occupation during 
WW2 is considered illegitimate under international law, Polish law 
applies, even in areas where the de jure Polish government didn't have 
de facto control. The discussion is here: 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Category:Stroop_Report

-Mark


effe iets anders wrote:
> of course I trust the commons people that they can work out this kind of
> stuff, but I assume you considered that if this was during WW2, Polish laws
> might not apply? (I am not even by far a legal specialist on international
> laws, and to determine which law is when applicable, but it makes me wonder
> though)
>
> BR, Lodewijk
>
> 2008/3/23, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
>   
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>  The United States Holocoaust Memorial Museum has a symbiotic
>>>       
>> relationship
>>     
>>>  with Wikipedia also, but in a way that raises no objections.  The image
>>>  below is featured in different versions (restored and unrestored) on
>>>       
>> both
>>     
>>>  Commons and en:Wikipedia:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_06b.jpg
>>
>> Durova, I'm very pleased to see this kind of image being featured, but
>> I'm wondering what kind of licence you used. Several of us have had
>> lots of problems with Holocaust images, forced to claim fair use
>> because of the age and lack of a release, but with fair use sometimes
>> contested too, because we often don't know who the copyright holder
>> is.
>> Sarah
>> ******
>> There was a long discussion at Commons about Stroop report images.  They
>> were taken in Poland by an anonymous photographer and first published in
>> Poland, so the conclusion was that German law is inapplicable, and under
>> Polish law these are public domain.
>>
>>
>> -Durova
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