[Wikimedia-l] images deletedfrom WikiCommons

[Ting Chen]

Great move WMIL.

This is I think an excellent example of great chapter work.

Greetings
Ting

Am 29.12.2013 06:19, schrieb Michal Lester:
> Hi,
>
>
> As some of you know, images are been deleted in the past month from
> WikiCommons due to a change in the ruling of the United States Supreme
> Court. (The case of Golan v. Holder, confirming the legality of the URAA,
> has restored copyright status to foreign works that were placed in the
> public domain after January 1, 1996).  Court ruling brought WikiCommons
> volunteers to delete images that do not meet the new guideline.
> Consequently, Israeli images were deleted even though the Israeli law
> releases them into the public domain.
>
> We wrote to the legal department of the Foundation to alert about the
> situation. The department has posted a legal
> opinion<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Use_of_Foreign_Works_Restored_under_the_URAA_on_Commons>
> on
> the subject following our inquiry.
>
> WMIL is going to turn to the Minister of Justice and seek for written
> statement that confirm that images released by the State of Israel to the
> public domain may be used freely around the world. We hope that WikiCommons
> operators rely on the letter and will not delete more images.
>
> It will be great if other chapters will update if they encountered the
> problem and what you intend to do.
>
>
> All the best
>
> Michal