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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
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As September 2010, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, San
Marino and Turkmenistan have no copyright relations with the US. [4]
All works published in these countries by nationals of these countries
are
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:52 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On English Wikisource, we consider these to be public domain.
We tag them that as public domain and explain why.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Ethiopia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Iran
On Thursday 23 February 2012 12:58 AM, Sarah wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Tom, and Sarah, for your very helpful explanations - they are
extremely useful.
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for instance,
On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:10 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Splitting this off, Achal, I hope that's OK :)
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for instance,
which highlights some of the interpretive problems you raise:
On 2/23/2012 9:37 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
Under US copyright law (and more generally the Berne Convention),
establishing that a work is in the public domain due to a lack of
treaty status requires meeting several requirements, and those
templates only address the most obvious one. These
Andrew Lih and Steven Walling and Timothy Messer-Kruse on NPR,
discussing exactly this today:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1t=1islist=falseid=147261659m=147261652
On Thursday 23 February 2012 08:11 AM, Robin McCain wrote:
Well, I'm not an active academic, but I have
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:00:50 -0800, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com
wrote:
Short version:
...
I'm raising the issue here, because I know many people on foundation-l
care about issues surrounding copyright and reuse, and a change like
this could set a precedent for what we ultimately do on the
I have updated
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Afghanistan
in an attempt to be compliant with US law and started a discussion
about this at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#PD-Afghanistan
The prior template, and the way it appeared to be used in some
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
Is anybody aware of the situation on Commons with these countries? Should
I alert Commons on this discussion?
snip
Commons requires that all images be free of copyright in both the US
and their country of origin.
Can we agree that if the creator of a (reasonably recent) work from
one of these countries were ACTUALLY to request that the file be
deleted due to a copyright issue, we would grant the request rather
than rely on an omission or incompatibility in the copyright treaty
regime?
Newyorkbrad
On
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote:
Can we agree that if the creator of a (reasonably recent) work from
one of these countries were ACTUALLY to request that the file be
deleted due to a copyright issue, we would grant the request rather
than rely on an
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 23 February 2012 12:58 AM, Sarah wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thank you Tom, and Sarah, for your very helpful explanations - they are
extremely
On 23/02/2012 19:14, Newyorkbrad wrote:
Can we agree that if the creator of a (reasonably recent) work from
one of these countries were ACTUALLY to request that the file be
deleted due to a copyright issue, we would grant the request rather
than rely on an omission or incompatibility in the
Dunno about the implications for Iranian works, but I will say that
these photographers:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_photographers_from_Iran
would be none to happy to find their works being uploaded to English
Wikipedia as being in the public domain.
Russavia
On
If folks commenting here would like a voice on the policy itself, feel free
to comment on the RfC linked in the original post. It could still use more
input.
~Nathan
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On 2/23/12 7:29 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:10 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Splitting this off, Achal, I hope that's OK :)
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for
instance,
which highlights some of the interpretive problems you raise:
Apologies if your receiving this more than once, I thought its important
to forward this to other lists as well, since editing by PR firms has
been discussed quite a bit recently.
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