On 1/25/06, Katefan0 <katefan0wiki(a)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.
We really don't need to rush into any kind of panic. On English
Wikisource the only affected text is John XXIII's "Pacem in terris".
I'm sure that there are other copies of this around that have been
published without permission. That may be enough to allow the doctrine
of laches to apply; the facts would need to be researched. We may even
be able to afford 15% of our cover price! We should at least give the
issue a little time to develop.
Ec