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(a)orange.fr> wrote:
From: Marc Galli <marc.jb(a)orange.fr>
Subject: [Wikisource-l] Extension Collection
To: wikisource-l(a)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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