[Foundation-l] Copyright on Wikisource

Wed Mar 15 09:55:19 UTC 2006

As I already told you, hosting material subject to copyright everywhere in
the world except in the USA is a mistake. The fact some texts by André Gide
are PD-US because written before 1923 won't impress Gide's heirs. Foundation
has certainly better things to do with its money than spending it in lost
cases.
villy ~~JC
PS: and please please stop telling that the fact the servers are in the USA
is good enough to strictly care only for the US law - with the Yahoo case,
you should know better.  Foundation could be sued right here in Paris and
should spend money on explaining how it comes that its site, reachable in
France, offers copyrighted material for free.

2006/3/14, Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net>:
>
> Hi,
>
> The question is asked whether we can host on Wikisource French authors
> whose
> works are not yet in the public domain in France, but are in the USA.
> Recently Villy and JB Soufron said we can't. JB Soufron supported the site
> "les Classiques des sciences sociales" when they host the very same works.
> Why not on Wikisource?
>
> However we do host such works in Wikisource for the last two years. Why
> changing policy now? On all subdomains, we apply US law regarding
> copyright.
> Why applying different laws, different standards, on different subdomains?
>
> More over, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of web sites hosted in US
> laws
> which have these kind of works. AFAIK, there never was any judgement
> against
> them. So I don't understand why Wikisource could not host these works.
>
> Further more, I would suggest than Wikisource should be hosted in Canada,
> so
> that the benefit of Canadian copyright law could be used.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yann
>
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