-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andre Engels wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jimmy Xu<xu.jimmy....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> These days at the Village Pump of zhwiki, many wikipedians are >> arguing about whether Wikimedia project should apply to the US >> Copyright Law that is where the servers were placed, or the local >> ones, for us, that is the P.R. of China Copyright Law. These thread >> came from a disagreement of fair-use text of news in article, so I'm >> willing to find some (kind of) official resolution. Thanks a lot. > > It will have to comply with US copyright law because of the location > of the servers, however, it would be good to have a policy to adhere > to local (in your case I would say Republic of China as well as > People's Republic of China) law too. That way, copyright problems are > avoided not only for the foundation, but also for the users (the > people who edit Wikipedia) and the reusers (the people who use > Wikipedia material as is allowed to them by to the GFDL (or SS-BY-SA) > license
Let's not forget Singapore, where Chinese is the most frequently spoken language at home. Cary -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpDmn8ACgkQyQg4JSymDYlKRQCg1O2Jfr7pQ0HinJMKrKRPOzPI rLIAnR26EHiiVGc+citUTSU5bUJ1/AcV =VgOu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
