On 8/4/05, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh(a)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_unwarrant…
]
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.