[Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Nathan, 22/02/2012 18:38:
> Thanks for the heads up, Robert. This boils down to a fairly simple
> question for me - do I want to participate in the political
> disenfranchisement of Iranian (and other) authors and photographers? They
> have few rights of political participation in their own nations, and no
> control over whether their government chooses to sign international
> treaties. It's wrong of Wikipedia to take advantage of the unfortunate
> situation of the citizens of these nations by regarding them as having no
> rights in their own work.

Could you please define "take advantage"? Or, how such taking advantage 
could harm them (it's not clear to me). I thought it was more a way to 
"keep Wikipedia legal" also in such countries, to facilitate 
participation from there.

Nemo