On 25/09/06, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Is there anywhere on Commons to upload this yet? If not, something along the lines of: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_Journals
You of course realize that mass downloads of journals may be construed as a copy of a significant part of a database, which is protected by a special copyright (much shorter than the regular one) under EU directives?
And the UK law implementing this is ...
David Monniaux says the Foundation should: [ ] not download and save this stuff on commons without absolute legal clarity [ ] say "such a restriction on hundreds of years old material is odious" and do it anyway [ ] something else
- d.