[Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

[Andre Engels]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Jimmy Xu<xu.jimmy.wrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:28 AM, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IANAL, but I suppose three things must be considered:
>> - US law, where the servers are based
>> - the country where a work originates
>> - the country to which the wikipedian belongs.
>
> Thanks, but there is still a problem: If these laws are under
> conflict, like the local law allows fair-use to some material but the
> US law doesn't, what should we do. I can't decide whether it should be
> marked as a copyright violation per US law or just being accepted per
> local ones? Thanks.

In case the laws are in conflict, you should only allow that which is
allowed by the laws of all countries which laws you follow.


-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com