On 8/4/05, Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@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_unwarrante... ]
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.