On 25 Jan 2006, at 22:16, Katefan0 wrote:
This sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure how it comports with their announcement:
Publishers will have to negotiate a levy of between 3 per cent and 5 per cent of the cover price of any book or publication "containing the Pope's words". Those who infringe the copyright face legal action and a higher levy of 15 per cent.
The Italian publishing house that got slapped with a $18.4k suit only contained 30 lines of papal decree. Obviously a Wikipedia article would never have even that much verbatim verbiage, but it does seem rather a small amount for an almost $20k suit. It then begs the question of what the quoted cutoff might be. I think regardless we would be all right as long as we were paraphrasing. But ... quoted matter may be a different story.
Sounds like a lot of Papal Bull to me.
Sorry..... ;)
Justinc