2009/12/31 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > 2009/12/31 Brian McNeil <brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org>: >> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 18:44 +0000, Douglas Gardner wrote: > >>> Out of interest, is it legal to upload these at 00:00UTC, or at 00:00 where >>> WMF is based? > >> That's a question for an international copyright lawyer. >> Since the servers actually run on UTC; why not ignore these quaint ideas >> of adjusting time based on where people are in the world. :-P > > > Britain is presently on UTC and this is British law, so 00:00:01 UTC > Jan 1 2010 would be right, I should think.
That is correct. In terms of timing only UK is significant since nothing not already in the public domain in the US is going to enter the public domain in the US until 2018 (when stuff published in 1923 will hit the public domain). -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
