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

[Newyorkbrad]

Can we agree that if the creator of a (reasonably recent) work from
one of these countries were ACTUALLY to request that the file be
deleted due to a copyright issue, we would grant the request rather
than rely on an omission or incompatibility in the copyright treaty
regime?

Newyorkbrad



On 2/23/12, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is anybody aware of the situation on Commons with these countries? Should
>> I alert Commons on this discussion?
> <snip>
>
> 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
>
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