[Wikipedia-l] Copyright Question - Catholic encyclopedia

[Jens Frank]

Hello,

how do we treat the Catholic Encyclopedia? (www.newadvent.org)

The articles are from a 1912 encyclopedia and should therefore be free,
but the website does claim a 1999 copyright for the online edition.

As it might be in many cases difficult to prove that someone copied from
newadvent.org, it is rather obvious if typos are preserved.

Can we use such an article as basis for copyediting?



Best regards,

    jens