Commons talk:Copyright rules by territory/United Arab Emirates
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Are stamps really in public domain?
[edit]Somebody wrote that certain United Arab Emirates stamps are in the public domain. But I see no indication that this has been verified. I mean it could be true, but how would we know? it requires a lawyer fluent in Arabic who knows the UAE legal system as it relates to two laws seemingly in conflict. Without that, it is irresponsible of Wikimedia Commons to declare these works to be in the public domain. Senator2029 07:34, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
UAE Copyright law before 1992
[edit]A continuation of Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2024/06#UAE copyright law before 1992. Did UAE had copyright law before 1992, and if so, automatically protected works or protected works of architecture? It might be possible that Jumeirah Mosque and other buildings completed before 1992 may be in publuc domain, if the claim of this article is correct (the claim that the 1992 law was the first Emirati copyright law).
The 1992 law does not seem to protect works made before 1992 (or so I thought, I may be wrong though).
Ping @ZI Jony: who is the current organizer of the Emirati leg of the WLM-2024 ed.. Ping also peeps who are already familiar on FoP-related discussions @Clindberg, Paradise Chronicle, Rosenzweig, and Adamant1: . JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 02:46, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- I don't really know, but I did notice that the 1992 law mentioned The Federal Law No. (15) of 1980 regarding the publishing, and the laws amending thereof. That 1980 law might have been a copyright/intellectual property law. Or not, I don't know. --Rosenzweig τ 06:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Rosenzweig I removed the mention of it at the CRT page because it does not mention anything related to copyright. One English text is provided by a government ministry of UAE (the English text). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 06:40, 2 July 2024 (UTC)