[Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 18:33, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> The servers are in the US and owned by a US organisation which has
> minimal overseas assets, which means US law is pretty much the only
> one that applies. If you want people in Serbia to be able to re-use
> the content, though, you need to make sure it satisfies Serbian law
> too. That means you need to make sure it satisfies whichever is the
> more restrictive in any given situation.
>
> I agree that US copyright law is a mess, but we have no choice about
> following it. If someone wanted to sue the WMF over copyright
> infringement, they would do it in the US, since the US clearly has
> jurisdiction and the WMF has lots of seizable assets there. Other
> countries may also have jurisdiction, but there isn't much point suing
> someone in a court that can't get hold of any of their assets.

My precise question is: Does US law follow local copyright laws in
relation to the works published locally and by authors with local
citizenship? Or not?