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.
On 1/25/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/25/06, Katefan0 katefan0wiki@gmail.com wrote:
All right, so back to the topic at hand -- should we just delete every
quote
from every pope cited on Wikipedia and Wikisource?
On Wikipedia: absolutely not. We are not including whole texts within Wikipedia, we are selectively quoting from and referencing them, which is well within the normal scope of fair use.
We might want to consider the status of some things on Wikisource, however.
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