[Wikipedia-l] no crown copyright outside of uk

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Thu May 26 17:07:44 UTC 2005


On 5/25/05, Jean-Baptiste Soufron <jbsoufron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given the importance of clear copyright rules on wikipedia, this
> statement has exactly a 0 legal value. What we should get is at least
> a non-exclusive license granted to wikipedia.
> 
> Also, I thought we were not only talking about copyright of uk public
> servants, but about copyright of uk authors at large before 1954... ?

We were discussing only Crown Copyright; i.e. UK government-owned copyright.

-Matt (User:Morven)



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