On 1/22/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/21/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@hi.is wrote:
That wouldn't be a bad thing. But remember that it's not as simple as 'free' and 'non-free'. We have *a lot* of images which are in the public domain in the United States but not elsewhere.
If I remember correctly, another category is US government works. The US government has before asserted that just because US law requires works of the US government be freely available within the US does not mean, in their view, that the works are PD elsewhere. They have certainly, as I recall, charged non-US corporations for using such data.
-Matt
Umm... I'm fairly certain that that's incorrect. Do you have a citation for any of that? I seem to recall the exact opposite, though I can't find a citation myself.
The only thing I could see possible is that the United States sued the non-US corporation in some non-US court. Even so, I'd be somewhat shocked, and I'd love to see some documentation that that's occurred.
Anthony