2010/10/5 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Klaus Graf klausgraf@googlemail.com wrote:
2010/10/5 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com:
However, texts without scans are *harmful* to Wikisource.
I long for the day when the vast majority of our texts are based on scans, however I disagree that texts without scans are, by that fact along [sic: should have been alone], harmful.
I fully agree.
For example, here is one text that I find extremely useful, as Wikimedia Australia is incorporated under this law.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Associations_Incorporation_Act_1981_%28Victori...
Scans are definitely crown copyright, so it isn't possible to upload scans.
This is a very special case. If a representation of a PD text which one need for proofreading at WS is not free, the WS text cannot be regarded as free. If I could I would speedy delete the text.
There are quite a few specical cases where the text is PD, but the full scan is not. e.g. where illustrations on the pages are still covered by copyright, but the words are not.
You don't need the illustrations for proofreading. We are blanking the illustrations or copyrighted parts in de WS. See e.g.
http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Joebbels&action=edit&imag...
Klaus Graf