On 2 March 2014 22:20, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 March 2014 13:51, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Its a pretty accurate description. What do you think the law says? > > > It's possible, if you want people and organisations to stop their > moves against you, that snideness and word play may not serve to > convince them that you have any evidenced interest in working with > others, and don't have to be treated as simply intransigent. >
Given that attempt to explain how the law actually works have been ignored there isn't much we can do to avoid being perceived as intransigent. If people won't listen there isn't much we can do other than add them to the list of people who unaccountably have better things do on weekends than read through copyright statutes and caselaw. It may be worth noting at this point that the Israelis and the Argentinians face two different problems. The Argentinian one probably can't be solve short of the US government adopting the rule of the shorter term (assuming stability in Argentinian copyright law in the meantime). The Israeli problem on the other hand could probably be solved by getting their government to issue a statement on the status of their copyrights overseas (the Brits did back in 2005). I'm not up enough on the Israeli Freedom of Information Law to know if that would be the appropriate mechanism ( and in any case I'm not an Israeli citizen or resident so I can't file one) but even if it isn't I expect the chapter would get a response to a query. But that is up to them. I can make an Israeli do this. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
