[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] FOP in Europe: does this include WWII monuments with art?

[Tobias Oelgarte]

The problem are not the European laws. It are the US laws that don't 
recognize the European FOP. That means it would be perfectly legal to 
host such images on an European server (in a country that recognizes 
FOP), but not on US servers, because they are subject to US law.

Am 02.03.2013 12:34, schrieb David Gerard:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jane Darnell <jane023 at gmail.com>
> Date: 2 March 2013 10:59
> Subject: [Commons-l] FOP in Europe: does this include WWII monuments with art?
> To: commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> Hello,
> Apologies for cross-posting, but WMNL was recently approached for
> helping start a photo contest for WWII monuments. Based on this
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freedom_of_Panorama_in_Europe_NC.svg
> We assumed that these photographs could be used on Wikipedia, but the
> recent discussions about the DMCA takedown notice for this
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Houseball_(Oldenburg_and_van_Bruggen)
> indicate that FOP in Europe is not really FOP.
>
> To be careful, we have decided to cancel the photo contest idea,
> though people are of course terribly disappointed about this.
>
> Does anyone know the status of this discussion? Of course, WLM has
> brought in several thousand of these "possibly-not-FOP" sculptures, as
> they are often WLM monuments themselves, or are situated directly in
> front of buildings that are WLM monuments.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info you have - we need a short and sweet
> way to inform the WWII monument committee and WMNL volunteers why we
> are cancelling.
> Jane
>
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