[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[FT2]

Are UK legal rulings public domain? Or just US rulings?

FT2

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:23 PM, FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just got curious and read up on Bridgeman vs. Corel. To my complete
> > surprise, though heard in the US, it cites UK precedent (Privy Council,
> > House of Lords) in forming its opinion -- it is /not/ purely a case based
> > upon US law.
>
> For anyone interested, we have this on Wikisource
>
> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library,_Ltd._v._Corel_Corp.
>
> There are a number of redlinks at the bottom.
>
> It would be good if Wikipedia articles were written about:
> * Fine Arts Copyright Act 1862 (see [[Edwin Wilkins Field]])
> * Graves' Case (1869, LR 4 QB 715)
>
> I cant quickly find a copy of Graves Case on the Internet.  If anyone
> can obtain pagescans of it, I will set it up on Wikisource as a
> transcription project.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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