On 5/1/06, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
The works I see us dealing with here are religous works, goverment works, and manifestos of political groups etc.
Again, these works can be protected through policy, while at the same time permitting, by policy, legitimate derivative works such as translations. There's no need to forbid derivative works by law. In any case, the authorship history of the original work must be maintained under common licenses such as the GFDL and CC-BY. This is the message we have to communicate to the authors of these documents.
Erik