For information. Yann
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Subject: RE: License of the translations
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:04:23 -0400
From: Hawkins, Kevin
To: Yann Forget
Yann,
I've updated the terms of use to correspond to our current contributor
agreements:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/call.html
We have begun discussions about CC licensing; however, the project
directors are not keen on licensing the content of this project since
the collection of translations is growing, and corrections are
constantly made to texts. So they would prefer that people keep coming
back to the website.
Because the texts are not static, it really seems to me not to be a good
fit for Wikisource.
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hawkins, Kevin
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 3:38 PM
> To: 'Yann Forget'
> Subject: RE: License of the translations
>
> Hello Yann,
>
> Thank you for your interest in the Encycloedia of Diderot and
> d'Alembert: Collaborative Translation Project. It's good to
> hear that Wikisource has taken an interest in the resource,
> which is published by the office where I work.
>
> Our publishing operation was founded at about the same time
> as Creative Commons, so have continued operating in the
> pre-CC era since then, allowing almost all of our content
> creators to keep their copyright rather than forcing them to
> give it to us. However, as was suggested in your discussion,
> this requires us to go back to the content creators every
> time someone wants to make a new use of their work. We have
> long meant to revisit all of our publishing agreements to
> approach everyone about some sort of CC licensing; in fact,
> we've begun inventorying these agreements to determine
> whether we can license any of these already.
>
> The Encycloedia of Diderot and d'Alembert: Collaborative
> Translation Project is, I believe, our only publication that
> provides more presents terms of use on the website rather
> than simply saying to contact spo-help(a)umich.edu for more
> information. However, Wikisource's user Eclecticology is
> right to point out that the text is contradictory. (It was
> drafted before we had access to any copyright specialists.)
> I will work with the project directors to revise this
> language to make it clearer.
>
> As for providinvg CC-BY-SA licensing, we will need to revisit
> agreements with past translators. As above, we were already
> considering doing something like this, but I can't yet say
> how soon we could accomplish this. Once it does happen, we
> would of course make this clear on the website.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Kevin Hawkins
> Scholarly Publishing Office
> University Library
> University of Michigan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yann Forget [mailto:yann@forget-me.net]
> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 6:39 AM
> > To: diderot-info @ umich . edu
> > Subject: License of the translations
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like some information about the license of the
> > translations of
> > the Encyclopédie. At Wikisource [1], we are interested to
> > collaborate on
> > this translation. However we would need that the license should be
> > compatible with our requirements. Would it be possible to
> release the
> > translations under a Creative Commons license like CC-BY-SA? [2]
> >
> > [1]
> > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Translati
> > on_of_the_Encyclop.C3.A9die
> > [2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Yann
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Subject: [Inside Google Book Search] U.S. copyright renewal records
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Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager, Google Book Search
If I handed you a book and asked whether it was in copyright or in the
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Unfortunately, a copyright page can't answer that question definitively --
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who owned the rights to it at that time. Ownership can change, though:
rights revert back to authors, and after enough time has passed, the book
enters into the public domain, letting people copy and adapt it as they
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folks at Project Gutenberg <http://pg.net> and the Distributed
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You can see an English language demo installation of the feature at:
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The feature is in production use on the German Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/
The German Wikipedia uses a custom configuration where the most recent
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You can track the progress of their use of the patrolling feature
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See http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4946163/ If MSN has digitized
Public Domain content in cooperation with the Open Content Alliance
download links to the Internet Archive (IA) were given in MSN Live
Search Books. After the end of Live Search the books are still
downloadable at the IA but there will be no full text search.
There were no download links for the proprietary MSN Public Domain
content especially the Cornell library cooperation. If Cornell (MSN
has digitized 75,000 books from Cornell) doesn't make this books
available (or donate it to the Internet Archive) this content will
disappear next week. It is possible to circumvent the MSN digital
rights management with simple means. I would like to recommend to do
so and to save as many books as possible for the Public Domain.
Klaus Graf
Thanks a lot!
Yann
PS: Forwarded to the Wikisource list for information.
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] MediaWiki2PDF
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 12:56:02 +0500
Yann,
Since Wikisource uses mediawiki markup we can add the feature You
request. We will do it as soon as possible.
Robert
>
> Great!
> It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
> Can it work for Wikisource?
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FYI. Yann
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Subject: [Foundation-l] MediaWiki2PDF
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:50 +0500
Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce a new web service.
MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate
nice looking PDF documents from books found on wikibooks.org. It looks
through child pages and collects chapters and subchapters into a single,
well-formatted PDF document. All you have to do, is just enter url of
the book and press "Enter".
From recent time service can also generates PDF-s from wikipedia
articles. It is possible to get PDF in A4/Letter and e-book (suitable
for e-readers) sized formats.
Visit us at http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf
We hope it will be useful to you.
Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Yann Forget <yann(a)forget-me.net> wrote:
>> Great!
>> It would also be very useful at Wikisource.
>> Can it work for Wikisource?
>
> in so far as it works at all, I would assume it probably works at
> wikisource too. The only way to tell is to type in the URL of a
> wikisource book and see what comes out the other side.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
Best Regards.
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With less than three months to go until the fourth annual Wikimania
conference, registration has finally opened and will remain so until
the 15th of June. This year Wikimania starts with the a promise to
"Change the Shape of Wisdom" as it is hosted by Bibliotheca
Alexandrina, the reincarnation of the ancient Library of Alexandria,
one of pillars of this Earth when Philosophy and Wisdom are bought
into question. In Alexandria, from the 17th to the 19th of July, ideas
will be shared and discussed between people from all over the globe,
once again igniting the golden cosmopolitan age of the city.
As always, the conference will take place over 4 different tracks,
with a variety of speakers: Keynote, invited, and other. The
conference tracks this year are:
* Wikimedia Communities - Interesting projects and particularities
within the communities; policy creation within individual projects;
conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity;
multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies.
* Free Knowledge - Open access to information; ways to gather and
distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in
education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and
usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with
Wikimedia projects. Free Content in Middle-East/Africa countries.
* Technical infrastructure - Issues related to MediaWiki development
and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for development
(including usable case studies from other wikis or similar projects).
* Scientific track - Papers submitted to the scientific track were
peer reviewed by scientific standards and accepted or rejected based
on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings
afterwards. Based on the number and the quality of the submission, a
journal special issue may be pursued
This year the conference is taking an interesting direction that hopes
to enlighten third world and Middle Eastern countries about the new
digital realm that is continuously expanding and evolving; as such,
along with many well reputed figures, an emphasis has been put on
bringing in Arab speakers. Speakers include Ahmed N. Tantawy, the
Technical Director of IBM in the Middle East; Eliane Metni, the
founding director of the International Education Association; Tim
Spalding, the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing; Eric M.
Johnson, the team leader for the Knowledge Management Action Team at
the U.S. Department of State; and Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s executive
vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions.
Take part on one of the most important IT events of the year. Check
the registration prices online.
<http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration>
While these prices do not include accommodation, the local team has
taken the effort to make all sorts of housing opportunities available,
starting from dorms up to luxury hotel rooms. Check these when your
registering. You will also be pleased to know that transportation is
available to and from Cairo International Airport in the 2 days before
and after the conference.
And what is a gathering without fun? Tours and parties are being
planned out for the participants of the event. After all Alexandria is
cultural city that brims with hospitality and the main idea of the
event is to provide a gathering place.
Hope to see you there!
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