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 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
