On 25/09/06, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux(a)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.