[WikiEN-l] Re: Vatican is asserting copyright

Wed Jan 25 22:25:26 UTC 2006

On 25 Jan 2006, at 22:16, Katefan0 wrote:

> This sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure how it comports with their
> announcement:
>
> Publishers will have to negotiate a levy of between 3 per cent and  
> 5 per
> cent of the cover price of any book or publication "containing the  
> Pope's
> words". Those who infringe the copyright face legal action and a  
> higher levy
> of 15 per cent.
>
> The Italian publishing house that got slapped with a $18.4k suit only
> contained 30 lines of papal decree.  Obviously a Wikipedia article  
> would
> never have even that much verbatim verbiage, but it does seem  
> rather a small
> amount for an almost $20k suit.  It then begs the question of what the
> quoted cutoff might be.  I think regardless we would be all right  
> as long as
> we were paraphrasing.  But ... quoted matter may be a different story.
>

Sounds like a lot of Papal Bull to me.

Sorry..... ;)

Justinc