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

Russavia russavia.wikipedia at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 21:10:08 UTC 2012


Dunno about the implications for Iranian works, but I will say that
these photographers:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_photographers_from_Iran

would be none to happy to find their works being uploaded to English
Wikipedia as being in the public domain.

Russavia....


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:41 AM, ??? <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23/02/2012 19:14, Newyorkbrad wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Any one want to explain what the implications of this are in respect to any
> Iranian work that is published on the internet?
>
> http://www.copyhype.com/2011/09/does-posting-on-the-internet-trigger-us-copyright-registration-requirement/
>
> In particular, just how much copyright would the work be invested in? Just
> how wilful would a decision to treat such works as PD be? And would the
> liabilities be in the Tennenbaum region?
>
>
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