[Wikipedia-l] Copyright concerns

Mon Oct 4 08:58:52 UTC 2004

Hi,

Le Monday 4 October 2004 03:05, Ray Saintonge a écrit :
> I personally believe that we could show a lot more courage in matters of
> copyright.  There is a great deal of material out there that is
> technically protected by copyright, but which could be republished with
> impunity simply because there is no-one there to own the copyright.
> This does not mean that we go ahead and willy-nilly republish anything
> that strikes our fancy; that would be an act of stupidity.  Some
> criteria would need to be followed.  Anything that we would so republish
> (Wikisource being most affected) would need to state the possible
> problems right up front, and to state that we would remove the material
> if so requested by a person who establishes that he has the legal right
> to make such a request.  If no-one makes a request for three years, the
> limitation period for civil copyright suits, the doctrine of laches may
> be applicable.

I am very interested to work on that line, and this would apply a lot for 
Wikicommons.

> Ec

Regards,
Yann
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