Why is everybody on my two mailing lists suddenly being IANAL?
Anyway... mass downloading images from a database recalls to my mind something about fr.wikiquotes...
Cary Bass
-----Original Message----- From: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Alphax (Wikipedia email) Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 6:00 AM To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Royal Society archives online until December
David Gerard wrote:
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
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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