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

[Robert Rohde]

As a footnote to the prior discussion, it has now come to light that
Afghanistan apparently does have a copyright law [1].  It was enacted
in the summer of 2008, and establishes life+50 years protection for
many works, including those published before the law was enacted.
Unfortunately, none of the wiki editors had noticed this apparent
change of status during the last 3.5 years.

-Robert Rohde

[1] http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=241541 (English version)