[WikiEN-l] Would you like one of your videos posted on Wikipedia?

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Delirium wrote:
> Mark Gallagher wrote:
>> G'day geni,
>>
>>   
>>> On 9/18/06, User:Unforgettableid <unforgettableid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Why would that be? Can a tree, a river, or a building be copyrighted?
>>>> You claim that there "may" be rights issues but you have not cited any
>>>> American law which back up your claim.
>>>>       
>>> If you are the creator and you are not in the US or made the item
>>> outside the US you need to consider more than the US legal system.
>>>     
>> But if you're in the USA, as we see again and again, you can blithely 
>> pretend that the US's POV is all that matters and shamelessly flaunt 
>> your ignorance of the rest of the world.
>>   
> 
> But this is precisely the goal---Wikipedia is sunk if it must use the 
> *intersection* of all copyright laws in the world, under which nearly 
> nothing is permissible to distribute.  Instead, it's carefully set up so 
> that all the core servers and legal mechanism are in the United States, 
> so we can use only one set of copyright laws.
> 

If you claim that on Commons, you'll be laughed off the project.

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