2011/5/10 FT2 <ft2.w...@gmail.com>: > Why would the creator's citizenship, or the place of its creation, be > decisive? The works of an Indian citizen are granted copyright under US law > in the United States, on a parity with the works of a US or any other > citizen, even if copyright has expired or still continues in India -- and it > is US law that governs Wikimedia. >
Not really - because both US and India signed Berne, UCC Geneva, UCC Paris, and TRIPS treaties - so (with some expections) the works performed by non US-citizens in India are copyrighted in USA if they are still under copyright in India. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
