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@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@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
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