[WikiEN-l] Re: Vatican is asserting copyright

[Katefan0]

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.


On 1/25/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/25/06, Katefan0 <katefan0wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All right, so back to the topic at hand -- should we just delete every
> quote
> > from every pope cited on Wikipedia and Wikisource?
>
> On Wikipedia: absolutely not.  We are not including whole texts within
> Wikipedia, we are selectively quoting from and referencing them, which
> is well within the normal scope of fair use.
>
> We might want to consider the status of some things on Wikisource,
> however.
>
> -Matt
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