[WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

[Nathan]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> So what happens when our editors start using their access to copy
> public domain works hijacked by JSTOR into Wikisource when the
> contract Wikimedia has with JSTOR forbids that activity?  Will
> Wikimedia tell its contributors that they can't copy these
> indisputably public domain works into Wikisource?


Would such a restriction really be a major disaster? Limited access to
content for which we previously had no access? Sometimes achieving a worthy
goal requires a compromise, and in this case it doesn't strike me as an
unnacceptable compromise (even granting full credit to your description of
the status of things, which I imagine probably has some ambiguity you are
leaving out).

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> Why does it seem that no one in this thread is bothering to even
> consider attaching to pre-existing university library access? Must we
> always reinvent the wheel?


That is an interesting possibility - is that achievable? Would interpreting
an existing set of agreements between publishers and a university as
authorizing that institution to grant access to Wikimedia editors be
something that any major university is willing to do?

Something that DGG can perhaps comment on.

Nathan

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