[WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/24/08, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>> Gregory Maxwell 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?
>>
>> It may tell them to, but it can't enforce that.  Some Wikisourcerors are
>> already downloading something similar from the Royal Society Digital
>> Archives, which recently allowed a 3-month free access.
>>
>> We can easily argue that we own a paper copy of the work  More
>> interesting though would be some sort of argument that those sections of
>> a contract which hijack copyrights on PD works are invalid as contrary
>> to public policy.  Alternatively, to what extent does a contract between
>> WMF and another corporation such as JSTOR bind volunteer contributors.
>>
> I pulled all the rsol archives some years ago but when I tried to
> submit the pd works to wikisource *you* blew me off Ray.   I still
> have them if anyone feels like fighting it out with the wikisource
> community.

RSOL = Royal Society Online?

Carcharoth