[WikiEN-l] Re: Vatican is asserting copyright

[Katefan0]

I'm not sure about the particulars, but my feeling is that the Vatican is
suggesting that it's always been copyrighted, and now they're just going to
enforce it.

Wikipedia/Wikisource doesn't make a profit itself, but in this situation I
don't see the Vatican agreeing to the commercial redistribution portion
of GFDL.

-k


On 1/25/06, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Katefan0 wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > CNN this morning was reporting that the Vatican has decided to assert
> > copyright on basically all papal communications (speeches, encyclicals,
> > etc.) made by every pope during the last 50 years, with the exception of
> > "the news media."  I don't know how much material we might have that
> could
> > fall afoul of this new declaration, or whether the Vatican would
> consider
> > Wikipedia and Wikisource under that umbrella, but someone more familiar
> with
> > Catholic information in Wikimedia areas should probably get involved.
> >
> > I don't know if there's any reason to think the Vatican would be willing
> to
> > grant a PD or GFDL licensing exception for Wikipedia. The spokesman said
> > that "newspapers have the right to publish texts as news" (such as
> > encyclicals), presumably because there's no profit made specifically
> from
> > their use.  But I'm not sure how this would apply to WP or WS.
> >
> > -k
> >
> > http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/01/25/ap2475804.html
> > _______________________________________________
>
> ...
> Is that legal to retrospectively apply a copyright on communications ?
>
> ...
> I must say I am abashed by this news...I seem to remember that the key
> point of a religion was to carry on a deity words so as to ensure a good
> number of believers...
>
> Weird
>
> ant
>
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