I'm not sure about the particulars, but my feeling is that the Vatican is suggesting that it's always been copyrighted, and now they're just going to enforce it.
Wikipedia/Wikisource doesn't make a profit itself, but in this situation I don't see the Vatican agreeing to the commercial redistribution portion of GFDL.
-k
On 1/25/06, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Katefan0 wrote:
All,
CNN this morning was reporting that the Vatican has decided to assert copyright on basically all papal communications (speeches, encyclicals, etc.) made by every pope during the last 50 years, with the exception of "the news media." I don't know how much material we might have that
could
fall afoul of this new declaration, or whether the Vatican would
consider
Wikipedia and Wikisource under that umbrella, but someone more familiar
with
Catholic information in Wikimedia areas should probably get involved.
I don't know if there's any reason to think the Vatican would be willing
to
grant a PD or GFDL licensing exception for Wikipedia. The spokesman said that "newspapers have the right to publish texts as news" (such as encyclicals), presumably because there's no profit made specifically
from
their use. But I'm not sure how this would apply to WP or WS.
-k
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/01/25/ap2475804.html _______________________________________________
... Is that legal to retrospectively apply a copyright on communications ?
... I must say I am abashed by this news...I seem to remember that the key point of a religion was to carry on a deity words so as to ensure a good number of believers...
Weird
ant
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