Sorry, change everywhere I said "50" to "60". I can't keep this stuff straight :P
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > It's actually even worse than that. Due to the URAA, thousands of works > which are verifiably public domain in India have had their copyright > restored in the United States. For example, all of the works of Mahatma > Gandhi are public domain in India (since he died over 50 years ago), > however, most of them are copyrighted in the U.S. until at least 2055 (even > if they were never published here). Thus in order to host the files on > Commons we have to know all of the following: > * Who authored the work? > * What year did the author die? > * Was the work ever published in the United States? > ** If so, what year? > ** Were copyright formalities followed? > ** Was the copyright renewed? If so what year? > * If not, did the author die after 1945 (1996 - 50 - 1) > ** If so, what year was the work first published in India? Was it before > 1923? > > If you can't answer all of these questions, your image might get deleted. > Welcome to the insanity of U.S. copyright laws and treaties! > > Ryan Kaldari > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 2011/5/10 FT2 <ft2.w...@gmail.com>: >> > 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. >> > >> >> Not really - because both US and India signed Berne, UCC Geneva, UCC >> Paris, and TRIPS treaties - so (with some expections) the works >> performed by non US-citizens in India are copyrighted in USA if they >> are still under copyright in India. >> >> >> -- >> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz >> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek >> http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ >> http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
