[WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

[Gregory Maxwell]

The list is free to consult the wikisource list archives for my last
posts and your responses.  Providing a direct link is a bit too much
work this far from my computers.

I have the full set of out of copyright ptrsol papers is djvu, ocred,
and ready for whomever would accept them.  Have for years. But it
seems people are too busy bickering than to bother to take them.

I come back to this list after being absent while on the road for the
last week to find myself being, effectively, a liar and and
obstructionist because I expected people to be able to perform a one
second search to find one of hundreds of thousands of
PD-claimed-copyright documents in jstor; or because I think it would
be prudent to work with universitiy libraries first before asking the
wmf to spend hundreds of thousands of donor money.

 If that's how thing are going to be run here- then so be it- No need
to expend any more of my effort. Enjoy.





On 12/26/08, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> WTF? =-O
>
> We seem to be labouring under some misapprehension.  This doesn't at all
> sound like the kind of thing I would do.
>
> For the latest round of discussion see [[Wikisource:Scriptorium#Royal
> Society Digital Archive only for 3 months FREE]]
>
> Ec
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> Ec
>>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>