[Foundation-l] Fwd: fair use on Hungarian Wikipedia - help!

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Friday 03 October 2008 03:38:00 John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:44 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2008/10/2 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>:
> >> Please help, the Hungarian Wikipedia have an law problem with not free
> >> images. Near all book, music, movie etc. cover and poster, logos
> >> removed because of Foundation policy.
> >> (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy) Says
> >> "in accordance with United States law and the law of countries where
> >> the project content is predominantly accessed" Hungarian law don't
> >> grant using this kind images. (But not really banned.)
>
> The first step is to help yourself.
>
> Write a good article about copyright in Hungarian language.
>
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerz%C5%91i_jog
>
> Translate this article onto Hungarian Wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law
>
> Write a good article about Hungarian copyright law, in both Hungarian
> and English languages:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Copyright_law_by_country
>
> > Okey does anyone have a copy of Hungarian law?
>
> You can nearly always find a link at [[w:en:List of countries'
> copyright length]]
>
> http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/text_html.jsp?lang=en&id=2213
>
> And the Hungarian language text for it is on Wikisource:
>
> http://hu.wikisource.org/wiki/Szerz%C5%91i_jogi_t%C3%B6rv%C3%A9ny
>
> (see also http://www.hpo.hu/jogforras/9976.html )
>
> It would be useful if a free translation was created on English
> Wikisource; red link here:
>
> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Copyright_law#Hungary

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