If PRC law says that factual statements published in PRC media cannot be copyrighted, then those statements may be available under a sort of PRC-PD license for anyone to use, including zh.wp -- it would not be a matter of fair use.
Under PRC law, are statements of simple fact *published outside of PRC* copyrighted? I believe you should not use text whose authors/publishers expect them to be copyrighted, unless it is also fair use within US law. SJ On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Jimmy Xu<xu.jimmy....@gmail.com> wrote: > So that is, due to P.R. of China Copyright Law, text that published in > newspapers, periodicals, radio and TV stations and other media > reported the news of the simple fact are not copyrighted. But I cannot > find these exception in US Copyright Law. Maybe it's only because my > English is not so good and I didn't caught it, maybe it's a possible > conflict. And if so, can we use these text published in P.R. of China > in Wikipedia as if they were in PD? > > And, the image now has no problem at all, everything causes by the text. > > jimmy_xu_...@zhwiki > 06/25/2009 > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Samuel Klein<meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What are examples of something which is fair use under chinese law but >> not under US law? <goes to check the discussion> >> >> In general you should not upload anything that violates US law. >> Additional standards are set by each community - in terms of free >> license v. fair use, whether an image is being used effectively on the >> project, &c. >> >> SJ >> >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Jimmy Xu<xu.jimmy.wrk at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:28 AM, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> IANAL, but I suppose three things must be considered: >>>> - US law, where the servers are based >>>> - the country where a work originates >>>> - the country to which the wikipedian belongs. >>> >>> Thanks, but there is still a problem: If these laws are under >>> conflict, like the local law allows fair-use to some material but the >>> US law doesn't, what should we do. I can't decide whether it should be >>> marked as a copyright violation per US law or just being accepted per >> local ones? Thanks. >>> >>> Jimmy_xu_wrk at zhwiki >>> 06/25/2009 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l