Nicholas Moreau wrote:
Wikijunior, as many already know, is publishing a series of books, the first of which is funded by the mysterious Beck Foundation.
This message has worried many of us:
"According to the United States Code for registering a copyrighted work, you must include your nationality (what country you claim citizenship in) and the country you are currently residing in, if different. It is also suggested by the U.S. Copyright office to include the year you were born, for identification purposes. They also ask for the year of death, and if you know of a Wikibookian who has passed away, this would also be useful. How exactly we are going to collect this information for users and contributors of this Wikibooks is totally unknown, and is going to be an interesting little ride. Please add comments in the discussion pagehttp://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikijunior_Big_Cats/Authors&action=editif you have any reservations about giving this information out. This is moving into new territory here, so we don't know exactly what is going to be required or if new policies should or ought to be developed."
(sample of the pages in question: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Big_Cats/Authors)
We are going to publish formal credit to any contributor that provides their name, but the project's shot if we do indeed need everybodies' info, no matter what. Many don't feel comfortable revealing such detailed info, like their birth year, and we should respect that.
Can anyone provide insight on the level of necessity to include everyone's info.
Nick/Zanimum
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Can you cite this piece of law ? Is the law the same in all countries ? If not, why having to respect this one ? If this is correct, should we follow the law ? Or explore a new territory ?
I am really not happy with the idea of crediting only those who will provide all this information. It is very contrary to my idea of what our project is. I am even less happy seeing editors should supposingly put that public on the net. What about everyone privacy ? When I buy a book by the way, nowhere is such an information provided on the book.
Can the lawyer guys here give some feedback on this issue ?
Anthere