[Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

[John Vandenberg]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org> wrote:
> Shiju and Sreejith:
>
>> Currently Wikipedia projects are hosted in US and all media files uploaded
>> to these projects should be copyright free in the source country of origin
>> and also in US.
>> If we need to upload media files out of copyright in India but still
>> copyrighted in US, I am afraid, the servers need to be hosted in India.
>
> Sreejith's point is what I was wondering about. Is there value in
> this? Something that the Chapter might consider?

I believe that either WM Canada or WM India should do this, as these
countries have the most useful copyright systems for our objectives.

I think that all Australian works which are public domain in Australia
(but not public domain in the United States) are also public domain in
India and Canada.  We need to check this with lawyers.

Wherever this new 'Wikisource' is located, the chapter needs to be
careful to ensure it maintains the high standards of copyright
compliance that Wikisource achieves.

-- 
John Vandenberg