[Foundation-l] Fwd: Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Fred Bauder >> wrote: >>> Foundation is not a legal term >> >> "Private foundation" is one, though, and it is one that is contrasted >> with "public charity". >> >> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/usco

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Fred Bauder
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Fred Bauder > wrote: >> Foundation is not a legal term > > "Private foundation" is one, though, and it is one that is contrasted > with "public charity". > > http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_0509000-.html > http://www.irs.gov/cha

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Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > Foundation is not a legal term "Private foundation" is one, though, and it is one that is contrasted with "public charity". http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_0509000-.html http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitab

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread HW
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Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Fred Bauder, 26/04/2011 21:08: >> MZMcBride, 26/04/2011 21:22: >>> From a "New York Times" blog post about the use of the word >>> "foundation" >>> versus the use of the word "charity": >> >> Something to consider is that the WMF has a global audience. In Italian, >> for instance, a translation fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Fred Bauder
> MZMcBride, 26/04/2011 21:22: >> From a "New York Times" blog post about the use of the word >> "foundation" >> versus the use of the word "charity": > > Something to consider is that the WMF has a global audience. In Italian, > for instance, a translation for "charity" doesn't even exist: all > f

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Fred Bauder
>>From a "New York Times" blog post about the use of the word "foundation" > versus the use of the word "charity": > >> Some charities, however, have the word "Foundation" in their official >> names. Examples of these are the Yele Haiti Foundation, the New York >> Foundation for the Arts, the Willi

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
MZMcBride, 26/04/2011 21:22: > From a "New York Times" blog post about the use of the word "foundation" > versus the use of the word "charity": Something to consider is that the WMF has a global audience. In Italian, for instance, a translation for "charity" doesn't even exist: all foundations a

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread Fajro
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:22 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > From a "New York Times" blog post about the use of the word "foundation" > versus the use of the word "charity": > Is the WMF only a charitable organization? I think WMF is much more than that. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foundation http:

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 April 2011 20:22, MZMcBride wrote: > It appears that nobody appears to actually follow this rule (including the > "New York Times"), but I find the nuance interesting. I imagine one would > perform better than the other during fundraising; perhaps there's hard data > on that. This varies

[Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

2011-04-26 Thread MZMcBride
>From a "New York Times" blog post about the use of the word "foundation" versus the use of the word "charity": > Some charities, however, have the word "Foundation" in their official > names. Examples of these are the Yele Haiti Foundation, the New York > Foundation for the Arts, the William J. C

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours this Thursday, April 28th at 17:00 UTC

2011-04-26 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Steven Walling wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just a quick heads up that Sue will be having one of her regular IRC office > hours in #wikimedia-office this Thursday, April 28th at 17:00 UTC. > Instructions about how to join etc. are on Meta.[1] > > As for topics, we we

[Foundation-l] IRC office hours this Thursday, April 28th at 17:00 UTC

2011-04-26 Thread Steven Walling
Hi everyone, Just a quick heads up that Sue will be having one of her regular IRC office hours in #wikimedia-office this Thursday, April 28th at 17:00 UTC. Instructions about how to join etc. are on Meta.[1] As for topics, we were thinking that it might be nice to talk about our continuing resear

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 4/26/2011 4:42:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, waihor...@yahoo.com.hk writes: > Baidu do not translate anything copy from English Wikipedia or Japanese > Wikipedia, but just keep the full content without attribution and changing > > anything. There are totally about 50 article

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 4/26/2011 12:08:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, smole...@eunet.rs writes: > Translation is not "sweat of the brow". Copyright law of Germany, for > example, explicitly states that translations are copyrighted: > http://bundesrecht.juris.de/urhg/__3.html . Copyright law of Serbi

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread HW
Baidu do not translate anything copy from English Wikipedia or Japanese Wikipedia, but just keep the full content without attribution and changing anything. There are totally about 50 articles copy from Eng & Japanese WP. HW 寄件人﹕ "wjhon...@aol.com" 收件人﹕ foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 04/26/2011 07:58 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 26 April 2011 03:06, wrote: >> I always thought that translations were considered "wholely derivative", >> that is that a new copyright is *not* created, by translating. > > I would expect that to vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. For > examp

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread Joan Goma
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Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, 2011/4/26 MZMcBride : > wjhon...@aol.com wrote: >> It's my understanding that "sweat of the brown" does not create a >> copyright at all. That was the entire argument behind the claim that >> phonebooks had no copyright protection. Similarly pure indexes have no >> copyright protection sinc