On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > 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.
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