Why would the creator's citizenship, or the place of its creation, be decisive? The works of an Indian citizen are granted copyright under US law in the United States, on a parity with the works of a US or any other citizen, even if copyright has expired or still continues in India -- and it is US law that governs Wikimedia.
FT2 On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:07 PM, <wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Welcome to the problem of Orphan Works. what you have to show is that > either of the following is true? > > (i) the author of which is a citizen of India; or > (ii) which is first published in India; or > (iii) the author of which, in the case of an unpublished work, is, at the > time of the making of the work, a citizen of India; > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
