On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Antti Järvinen wrote: > - The Lenin photograph, according to > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper#mediaviewer/File:Lenin_reading_Pravda.gif
A better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lenin_reading_Pravda.gif > is by Pyotr Otsup who was not credited in copyright. The file is > in the public domain in most countries yes, but is it still a > problem to have it included, if there is some imaginary country > that for instance grants eternal copyright to every graphical item? According to the above page, Pyotr died in 1963 and was Russian. According to the Wikipedia page on copyright length, Russian copyright lasts the life of the author plus 70 years. So the image is not in the public domain in Russia yet. Many other countries have the same period so distribution of the image by Debian mirrors could constitute a copyright violation in some places. It has expired to the public domain in countries where the standard is life+50 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caktje6g+3xgytjo-bqdve+hz+kzjswf6uax1lc9nuicka25...@mail.gmail.com
