[Wikisource-l] Copyright issues on Wikisource

Fri Nov 3 20:42:48 UTC 2006

If a policy for all Wikisources is going to be based in the USA laws and
ignore all international agreements, lots of works that are in public domain
in anothers countries but not in the USA needs to be deleted. Lots of works
from brazilians and portugueses writers that died more than 70 years... Is
more simple to respect the copyright from the contry of origin (and make
attempts to change the stupid 100 years after death law in the USA).

On 11/3/06, Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On behalf of the Wikisource contributors, I request an official advice
> from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding copyright issues on Wikisource.
>
> The issue is whether works which are public domain in USA, but not in
> their country of origin can be published on Wikisource. Public domain in
> USA is the rule which is applied since the beginning of the project in
> November 2004. I ask in December 2004 [1] that a clear policy should be
> defined, but it was never done. Subdomains have followed different rules
> on this matter: for example, the English Wikisource publishes works from
> George Bernard Shaw [2], an Irish author, works which are public domain
> in USA but not in Ireland. A similar issue now arises on the French
> Wikisource [3] about works from Gaston Leroux.
>
> So can we follow a uniform policy accross languages and subdomains and
> publish any work which is public domain in USA, or should another policy
> be defined?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Yann Forget
>
> [1] http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_talk:Copyright_policy
> [2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Bernard_Shaw
>
> [3]http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Pages_soupçonnées_de_copyright#Gaston_Leroux_-_Le_Fauteuil_hanté
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