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
For my money
[x] say "such a restriction on hundreds of years old material is odious"
and do it anyway
but IANAL (and I'm not being paid to do this either). I might add that
downloading the stuff is a non-trivial process...
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