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

[Robert Rohde]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
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> Is anybody aware of the situation on Commons with these countries? Should
> I alert Commons on this discussion?
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Commons requires that all images be free of copyright in both the US
and their country of origin.  Since most of the non-treaty countries
do have domestic copyright laws, the restrictions originating from
such laws continue to be enforced on Commons.

The notable exception is Afghanistan which apparently has no domestic
copyright laws at all.

The case of PD-Afghanistan on Commons is mentioned in prior emails on
this thread.

-Robert Rohde