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, 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.
I do not think that we need longer tolerance for projects tolerating scan-less texts. In 99,9 percent of all scan-less cases there are NO legal obstacles like in the Australian case.
Klaus Graf