[Foundation-l] Copyright on Wikisource

[Delirium]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Furthermore, our *goals* -- neverminding the legal problesm that
>Jean-Christophe Chazalette wrote about -- our *goals* include a very
>high degree of reusability.  Hosting materials that are subject to
>copyright everywhere in the world except in the USA is a mistake on the
>simple grounds that such work would not be redistributable anywhere else.
>  
>
I agree with that, but there needs to be a balance short of "only host 
materials that are freely redistributable in every single country in the 
world", lest we end up having to follow the most restrictive copyright 
laws in the world.  Under that interpretation, we could, for example, 
never post the King James Version of the Bible, because in the United 
Kingdom its publication is controlled in perpetuity by the Monarch.  Not 
to mention all the many books we can't legally distribute in countries 
like China for reasons unrelated to copyright.

-Mark