[WikiEN-l] Copyright situation

[Puddl Duk]

On 8/4/05, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am having a problem with several Iran-related articles and photos.
> Someone ([[User:Zereshk]]), who has posted a lot of text and pictures
> copyrighted in Iran to the Wikipedia is claiming that:
> 
> "Iranian websites are not legally protected under International
> copyright laws. Iran is not a member of WTO, nor a signatory to the
> Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works,
> and correspondingly does not adhere to International Copyright laws
> itself. [...] Wikipedia (an American company) is not legally
> responsible for anything even if something was copied from a website
> from Iran." [
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Roozbeh#Copyright_tags_are_unwarranted
> ]


I think this is a good question for the Juriwiki-l mailing list (see 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_list).

This has come up before on the copyright problems page. Even if we are 
legally able (at the moment) to violate Iran's copyright laws, I don't think 
that we should.