If the Museum of Israel or indeed anyone else was to sue someone reusing data from a Wikimedia project, then obviously one would hope that the result would endorse the community's view as to the copyright status of that data. If a certain British art gallery told us they'd just discovered that one of their Rembrandts was a Keating; Or if God turns up in Court, proves that he or she is the author and insists on an incompatible copyright, (CC-by-nc-nd if my limited knowledge of western monotheistic religions is correct). Then I would hope we would treat the incident in the same way as any other Goodfaith copyvio, and it would certainly give wikinews a unique perspective if they were to cover the story primarily as a copyright issue.
If a non US court or legislature decided to take a more restrictive stance than US law then I suppose we'd have to add another clause to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Art There are already ones in there for Mexico, Samoa, Côte d'Ivoire and a few others. WereSpielChequers > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 08:36:43 -0400 > From: Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: Board list for Wikimedia Israel > <wikimediail-bo...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Shani * > <shani.e...@gmail.com>, talmory...@gmail.com > Message-ID: > <CAPreJLT7eV=UQvNU=nxmlrc8ecer4irv_n4lyr4mrz-kdjm...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva > <tolkiend...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In practical terms, what they can do? Wikipedia is hosted in US. > > Therefore, for a successful takedown, the museum must sue in US. > > Well, for one thing, they could sue reusers. > > WMF using the work is one thing. WMF telling the rest of the world > that the work is public domain and anyone can use it for any purpose > without permission, is another. > > > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
