[Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

[FT2]

Why would the creator's citizenship, or the place of its creation, be
decisive?  The works of an Indian citizen are granted copyright under US law
in the United States, on a parity with the works of a US or any other
citizen, even if copyright has expired or still continues in India -- and it
is US law that governs Wikimedia.

FT2



On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:07 PM, <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Welcome to the problem of Orphan Works. what you have to show is that
> either of the following is true?
>
> (i) the author of which is a citizen of India; or
> (ii) which is first published in India; or
> (iii) the author of which, in the case of an unpublished work, is, at the
> time of the making of the work, a citizen of India;
>
>