Craig, et al
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
Russavia,
I'm a bit confused though about the parody/satire angle, my understanding is that a CC licence does not extinguish things such as moral rights that are not related to copyright.
Sorry, I should make myself more clear -- sometimes it's easy to forget that people may not be thinking on the same level as oneself.
If an image is out of copyright in Israel, but still has copyright protection in the US due to URA, lets say one was to parody/satirise that work in the US, and let's say they sell that work for profit.
Whilst parody and satire are covered under the 1st amendment in the US, the Israeli government could invoke the copyright protection in the US of that work to stop its distribution. And it's an argument that would work.[1]
This is why it is required for the Israeli government to state clearly that when an Israeli government work falls into the public domain it relinquishes it's copyright over those works worldwide, and for this to cover both past (required due to URAA), present and future cases (preferable). If that doesn't occur, then Commons won't be able to host those materials until they fall out of copyright in the US due to the rejection of the loosening of the PRP policy, and by extension the URAA RfC, on Commons.[2]
But, I guess what I'm trying to get at, is that if these images *are* useful, a more productive course of action than arguing about it on a mailing list would probably be to identify what steps can be taken in good faith to move them from a disputed copyright situation to a situation
where
everyone is comfortable that there are no problems with re-use.
On this point I agree entirely. WMIL now has an ally, the Ministry of Education, I hope they use it to their advantage.
Cheers
Russavia
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Joker%22_poster [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Review_of_Precaution...