[Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls - if someone was to sue our reusers

[WereSpielChequers]

If the Museum of Israel or indeed anyone else was to sue someone reusing
data from a Wikimedia project, then obviously one would hope that the result
would endorse the community's view as to the copyright status of that data.
If a certain British art gallery told us they'd just discovered that one of
their Rembrandts was a Keating; Or if God turns up in Court, proves that he
or she is the author and insists on an incompatible copyright, (CC-by-nc-nd
if my limited knowledge of western monotheistic religions is correct). Then
I would hope we would treat the incident in the same way as any other
Goodfaith copyvio, and it would certainly give wikinews a unique perspective
if they were to cover the story primarily as a copyright issue.

If a non US court or legislature decided to take a more restrictive stance
than US law then I suppose we'd have to add another clause to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Art There are already ones in
there for Mexico, Samoa, Côte d'Ivoire and a few others.

WereSpielChequers

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> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 08:36:43 -0400
> From: Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls
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> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
> <tolkiendili at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In practical terms, what they can do? Wikipedia is hosted in US.
> > Therefore, for a successful takedown, the museum must sue in US.
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> Well, for one thing, they could sue reusers.
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> WMF using the work is one thing.  WMF telling the rest of the world
> that the work is public domain and anyone can use it for any purpose
> without permission, is another.
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