On 29 March 2016 at 06:15, Asmus Freytag (c) <asm...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > What is the copyright status of the > document? > > The terms of use (ostensibly for the entire site) are defined here: > > http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
That refers to the Unicode Standard and data files and other pages produced and published by the Unicode Consortium. It does not and cannot refer to documents submitted to the Unicode Consortium by external entities or individuals. > The document archive has not been designated with anything more restrictive, > more specific or even explicit, but the documents themselves do not carry > copyrights. As far as the Consortium is concerned, it requires the submitters > to follow this policy All documents submitted to WG2 and to L2 by individuals are copyright of the author(s) of the document. Documents do not need to carry a copyright notice to have copyright, and submitting the documents to Unicode Consortium and/or ISO does not affect the copyright status of documents. > http://www.unicode.org/policies/ipr_policy.html > > which gives the Consortium the rights to distribute submissions for any > purpose. A non-exclusive right. > Can it be redistributed and replicated on other sites? Ask the individual authors of the particular documents you want to redistribute. > Can it be quoted literally in a Wikipedia entry? Within the normal Wikipedia rules for quoting copyrighted material. Andrew