-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SlimVirgin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 17:22, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> > wrote: >> However, that is somewhat separate from the question of images >> that are in the public domain _somewhere_. It is somewhat crazy >> that US laws dictate what public domain materials you can upload >> to Wikipedia etc - irrespective of what laws apply in your own >> country. >> >> One possibility that might be worth investigating is something >> like Wikilivres - which holds books that are out of copyright in >> Canada (life+50 years) but not in the US. It can do that as its >> servers are based in Canada. Could we do something similar with >> Wikimedia Commons? i.e. host multimedia content on a server in a >> different geographical area, and then have that linked in with >> Wikipedia in the same way that Commons currently is? > > Or we could simply make a decision as a project to respect the > copyrights and the terms of release of the countries of origin. > > I'm dealing with an image at the moment of Palestinian women > refugees resting after being expelled from their homes as the > Israeli army approached in 1948. It's in the public domain in > Israel, which now controls the area in which the image was taken. I > am 99.9 percent certain it was taken by an employee of the British > War Office, which would make it public domain in Britain and the > Commonwealth (and as far as the British are concerned that makes it > PD everywhere). I sent off for an old first edition of a book I > knew it had appeared in in the 1950s in the hope that it would > explicitly credit the War Office, but sadly it doesn't. > > Because of that small doubt, I have to claim fair use. And because > I am claiming fair use, someone has said I will have to reduce the > quality of the image for it to comply with our fair-use policy. > It's insane. I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of origin rule rather than the PD-US rule that more often applies on the English Wikipedia.
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