共享资源:各地著作权法规/美属萨摩亚
美属萨摩亚是位于南太平洋的美国未整合领土，在萨摩亚独立国的东南方向。
历史
根据1899年的三方会谈，德国和美国分割了萨摩亚群岛。德国占领西面较大的岛屿，即今天的萨摩亚，美国则占领东面较小的岛屿，在1900年叫图图伊拉群岛，在1904年正式称为马努亚群岛。1902年群岛正式并入美国，在1911年被更名为美属萨摩亚。美属萨摩亚根据1967年7月1日生效的宪法开始自治，但联合国将其列为非自治地区。
法律
美属萨摩亚的法律基于1960年10月17日宪法管理。[1][2] 1966年9月26日起在美属萨摩亚法加托哥举办的宪法会议确定了多个修正案。[3] 这些经过公投于1966年选举期间通过，并于1967年7月1日生效。[4]
在建制领地中，美国版权局表示：“美国联邦版权法律适用于美属维尔京群岛、关岛和北马里亚纳群岛，但不适用于美属萨摩亚。”[5] 美属萨摩亚统一立法第27条——条款注释（ASCA），与贸易和交易、禁止输入或输出货物、违反国际或美国版权或专利法的商品买卖或增值相关，但除此之外并未提及版权法律。[6]
As of 1993, American Samoa itself enacted no copyright laws. However, "because a copyright may be obtained by a person who is not a citizen of the U.S., but who is instead either "a national or domiciliary of the United States" (17 U.S.C. 104(b)(1)), United States copyright protection is available to Samoans in general... That protection, however, would not extend to the Samoan... author "at home" in Samoa... because the Federal law does not extend to... Samoa."[7] In other words, "The Federal copyright laws... do not apply within American Samoa..., but American Samoans can obtain copyright protection elsewhere in the United States".[8]
管理美属萨摩亚版权的规则因此并不清晰，基本上回到这一老路：在材料可以上传至维基共享资源之前，必须在美国进入公有领域，或是按自由版权协议提供。
版权标签
货币
全景自由
参见：共享资源:全景自由
可能類似於COM:FOP US。
The absence of copyright law applying to the territory means that photos that would be affected by freedom of panorama could be uploaded. However, as the copyright of any American Samoan architect living in the United States would be protected according to US federal law, realistically such photos would be protected similarly to American FOP.
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引用
- ↑ Leibowitz, 1980, p. 254
- ↑ Leibowitz, 1989, p. 420
- ↑ Leibowitz, 1980, pp. 254-255
- ↑ Revised Constitution of American Samoa. International Labour Organization (ILO) (1967). Retrieved on 2020-03-23.
- ↑ Circular 38a: International Copyright Relations of the United States 14. U.S. Copyright Office. Retrieved on 2019-03-14.
- ↑ American Samoa Consolidated Legislation - Code Annotated (ASCA) : Commerce and Trade [Title 27]. Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (2020). Retrieved on 2020-03-23.
- ↑ Extraterritoriality does not apply in copyright law.
- ↑ The application of Federal laws in ... American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands: by Dept. of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor., Washington, 1993, volume 2, pp. 465-470.
Sources
- Leibowitz, Arnold H (1980). "American Samoa: Decline of a Culture". California Western International Law Journal 10: 220–271.
- Leibowitz, Arnold H (1989) Defining Status: A Comprehensive Analysis of United States Territorial Relations ISBN: 978-0-7923-0069-4.