On 25 Jan 2006, at 22:16, Katefan0 wrote:
This sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure how it
comports with their
announcement:
Publishers will have to negotiate a levy of between 3 per cent and
5 per
cent of the cover price of any book or publication "containing the
Pope's
words". Those who infringe the copyright face legal action and a
higher levy
of 15 per cent.
The Italian publishing house that got slapped with a $18.4k suit only
contained 30 lines of papal decree. Obviously a Wikipedia article
would
never have even that much verbatim verbiage, but it does seem
rather a small
amount for an almost $20k suit. It then begs the question of what the
quoted cutoff might be. I think regardless we would be all right
as long as
we were paraphrasing. But ... quoted matter may be a different story.
Sounds like a lot of Papal Bull to me.
Sorry..... ;)
Justinc