JW wrote:
Merely "breaking Iranian law" isn't particularly
worrisome.
Not unless they first obtain some nukes to help them enforce their particular notions of IP law.
SV
--- MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Regardless of where a certain text comes from. It's copyrighted as soon as the author puts it on paper in a tangible form. Some governments give up their copyrights over this material, but I think anything that can be traced to a written source that's not specifically released under the GFDL or released into the PD by it's author is off limits to Wikipedia regardless where it comes from.
--Mgm
On 8/18/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
There are problems with that:
- I believe the Wikimedia Foundation would be
breaking Iranian law by
distributing those material to Iran, that is,
serving its pages to
Iranian readers. If it wishes to use the
material, it should block
Iran from its readership. 2) It's not only the government, and other
Iranians may wish to sue
the Wikimedia Foundation.
Well, although I agree with you about the ultimate
point here (we should
not violate Iranian copyrights, even if it is
legal to do so in the US),
I don't find these two arguments to be the most
compelling.
First, if we are breaking Iranian censorship laws,
then so be it. (I
have no idea, actually, but I would imagine that
we are.) Merely
"breaking Iranian law" isn't particularly
worrisome.
Second, I think the point is that such use would
be legal in the US, and
if so, I don't see that Iranians would have much
of a way to sue us,
except perhaps in Iran, which would be more or
less pointless.
I think the most compelling argument is that we
want to encourage broad
re-use, including in Iran, and if Iranian
copyright laws are more or
less as sensible as the laws of other places, then
we should follow
those laws, regardless of ongoing disputes between
the US and Iran which
may prevent an actual treaty.
--Jimbo
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