Uh, this is going to sound weird if you start doing a miranda-ish warning

----- Original Message ---- From: Anthony wikimail@inbox.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:23:14 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Legal position of audio recordings of GFDL content?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:01 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

One important question: how do you manage GFDL on spoken text?

Depends on how you intend to distribute the spoken text. The GFDL does not state that the text of the license must be in the same format as the rest of the document. Including the license in an online distribution is easy. Including the license in a physical distribution (of CDs or whatever) is easy. The only difficulty I can see for this would be for an audio broadcast - but then again, the GFDL doesn't even mention anything about the public performance right (only the public display right), so by a strict reading of the license you aren't permitted to make an audio broadcast of a GFDL work anyway. And what radio station wants to broadcast GFDL documents anyway?

Requiring a reading of the license on the end of all audios is onerous. Our many spoken articles on English Wikipedia are (presumably) not a violation as long as they're on Wikipedia, with the license text a link away - but aren't really unencumbered for use elsewhere.

Is the GFDL fundamentally discriminatory against the blind?

If anything, requiring the license to be spoken when the rest of the document is spoken would benefit the blind, as it would more easily inform them of their rights. That's the whole point of requiring the license to be included, right? To inform people of their rights?

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