On 7/8/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
I've got one more question on our
Lindisfarne Gospels image. Since it
would almost certainly be "protected"
under British law I wonder if the
[[Berne Convention]] would require the
United States to uphold this protection.
Not at all. Even assuming that the museum's dubious claims were upheld
by British courts, the operating principle in the US would be not to
give greater protection than would be available in a comparable
situation in the US, i.e. of source material owned by a US museum. The
US courts have already gone further in determining the
non-copyrightability of such materials.
Ec
Again, I thought the main concern with image licensing, after avoiding
legal issues with
wikipedia.org, was to ensure the encyclopaedia was
"free" for others to use (presumably by extension, outside the US, in
the UK, etc.) At the moment, simply a mirror in some other countries
will have copyright violations, regardless of the same images not
being problematic in the US.
The issue of only US law applying to
wikipedia.org is surely
irrelevant even if it is true - as far as creating a "free"
encyclopaedia for all goes.
Zoney
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