So, on Wikisource, it is autorized to deny or to attribued incorrectly credit to contributors for their work, because texts are in domain public. That's a very great consideration for hours and days that contributors could have spend on Wikisource to edit those textes. The respect we gain in the process is conform to the spirit of the Foundation.
« This would only cause a copyvio problem in translations. Right now there are few enough of those that we should be able to make notations by hand. J'accuse is the only translation I know that use Page: Can someone see what can be done to give the proper credit? I am barely online this week.
Birgitte SB »
I am not saying that it is acceptable to give incorrect credit; I am saying that the credit is *not* incorrect except for translators. There is no authorship credit given for non-authors; this has nothing to do with Wikisource or the extension issue. Authorship is only noted for certain types of contributions based on creativity. Not time spent making the duplication between mediums more exact. Wikisource proofreaders have no more credit due to them for "A Christmas Carol" than the Mediawiki developers. Charles Dickens gets the credit for "A Christmas Carol". And this has nothing to do with the fact that "A Christmas Carol" is public domain. No one ever gets named an author for proofreading and other non-creative tasks. This is why it is not a copyright violation. Wasn't that what concerned you? The massive copyright violation you thought was going on? If your real concern is that the law and free content licenses do not grant IP rights for non-creative efforts, then I cannot help you. Wikisource happens to record all contributions in the history. But re-users should only need to recognize those who have a right to be named by law and custom. That includes those re-users who are simply printing a page from Wikisource.
Birgitte SB
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Marc Galli marc.jb@orange.fr wrote:
From: Marc Galli marc.jb@orange.fr Subject: [Wikisource-l] Extension Collection To: wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 4:11 AM So, on Wikisource, it is autorized to deny or to attribued incorrectly credit to contributors for their work, because texts are in domain public. That's a very great consideration for hours and days that contributors could have spend on Wikisource to edit those textes. The respect we gain in the process is conform to the spirit of the Foundation.
« This would only cause a copyvio problem in translations. Right now there are few enough of those that we should be able to make notations by hand. J'accuse is the only translation I know that use Page: Can someone see what can be done to give the proper credit? I am barely online this week.
Birgitte SB »
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