[Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

[John Vandenberg]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> ..
>
> As September 2010, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, San
> Marino and Turkmenistan have no copyright relations with the US. [4]
> All works published in these countries by nationals of these countries
> are considered to be in the public domain in the US unless they were
> also published in a country that has US copyright relations within 30
> days of their original appearance.

On English Wikisource, we consider these to be public domain.
We tag them that as public domain and explain why.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Ethiopia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Iran
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Iraq

Afghanistan is different.  They dont have any laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_and_copyright_issues

Commons also treats their works as public domain.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Afghanistan

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John Vandenberg