[Foundation-l] Authoring on wikijunior : providing private information.

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

As far as I understood this is not mandatory information but only 
recommended stuff.

One fact is that identification of the author and of his year of death 
is very important for copyright law since his work will fall into public 
domain 70 years after he died.

But there is nothing mandatory in these informations !

Jean-Baptiste Soufron, Legal
CERSA-CNRS PARIS 2

Anthere wrote:
> Nicholas Moreau wrote:
> 
>> Wikijunior, as many already know, is publishing a series of books, the 
>> first
>> of which is funded by the mysterious Beck Foundation.
>>
>> This message has worried many of us:
>>
>> "According to the United States Code for registering a copyrighted 
>> work, you
>> must include your nationality (what country you claim citizenship in) and
>> the country you are currently residing in, if different. It is also
>> suggested by the U.S. Copyright office to include the year you were born,
>> for identification purposes. They also ask for the year of death, and 
>> if you
>> know of a Wikibookian who has passed away, this would also be useful. How
>> exactly we are going to collect this information for users and 
>> contributors
>> of this Wikibooks is totally unknown, and is going to be an interesting
>> little ride. Please add comments in the discussion
>> page<http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikijunior_Big_Cats/Authors&action=edit>if 
>>
>> you have any reservations about giving this information out. This is
>> moving into new territory here, so we don't know exactly what is going 
>> to be
>> required or if new policies should or ought to be developed."
>>
>> (sample of the pages in question:
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Big_Cats/Authors)
>>
>> We are going to publish formal credit to any contributor that provides 
>> their
>> name, but the project's shot if we do indeed need everybodies' info, no
>> matter what. Many don't feel comfortable revealing such detailed info, 
>> like
>> their birth year, and we should respect that.
>>
>> Can anyone provide insight on the level of necessity to include 
>> everyone's
>> info.
>>
>> Nick/Zanimum
> 
> 
> ??????
> 
> Can you cite this piece of law ?
> Is the law the same in all countries ? If not, why having to respect 
> this one ?
> If this is correct, should we follow the law ? Or explore a new territory ?
> 
> I am really not happy with the idea of crediting only those who will 
> provide all this information. It is very contrary to my idea of what our 
> project is. I am even less happy seeing editors should supposingly put 
> that public on the net. What about everyone privacy ? When I buy a book 
> by the way, nowhere is such an information provided on the book.
> 
> 
> Can the lawyer guys here give some feedback on this issue ?
> 
> Anthere
> 
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