I pulled all the rsol archives some years ago but when I tried to
submit the pd works to wikisource *you* blew me off Ray.   I still
have them if anyone feels like fighting it out with the wikisource
community.


On 12/24/08, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> So what happens when our editors start using their access to copy
>> public domain works hijacked by JSTOR into Wikisource when the
>> contract Wikimedia has with JSTOR forbids that activity?  Will
>> Wikimedia tell its contributors that they can't copy these
>> indisputably public domain works into Wikisource?
>
> It may tell them to, but it can't enforce that.  Some Wikisourcerors are
> already downloading something similar from the Royal Society Digital
> Archives, which recently allowed a 3-month free access.
>
> We can easily argue that we own a paper copy of the work  More
> interesting though would be some sort of argument that those sections of
> a contract which hijack copyrights on PD works are invalid as contrary
> to public policy.  Alternatively, to what extent does a contract between
> WMF and another corporation such as JSTOR bind volunteer contributors.
>
> Ec
>
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