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

[Robert Rohde]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we agree that if the creator of a (reasonably recent) work from
> one of these countries were ACTUALLY to request that the file be
> deleted due to a copyright issue, we would grant the request rather
> than rely on an omission or incompatibility in the copyright treaty
> regime?

One of the most vocal commenters at w:Talk:Copyrights, would almost
certainly say no.

For example:

"... [T]hey have the opportunity to obtain copyrights elsewhere and
chose not to do so. That is their responsibility."

"The rights of copyright for the individuals end at the border of Iran, period."

At least some of the Wikipedia commenters seem prepared to draw a hard
line on this issue with no exceptions.

Personally, I'd like to believe that we as a community are more
reasonable than that.

-Robert Rohde