[Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>
> wrote:
> > Shiju and Sreejith:
> >
> >> Currently Wikipedia projects are hosted in US and all media files
> uploaded
> >> to these projects should be copyright free in the source country of
> origin
> >> and also in US.
> >> If we need to upload media files out of copyright in India but still
> >> copyrighted in US, I am afraid, the servers need to be hosted in India.
> >
> > Sreejith's point is what I was wondering about. Is there value in
> > this? Something that the Chapter might consider?
>
> I believe that either WM Canada or WM India should do this, as these
> countries have the most useful copyright systems for our objectives.
>
> I think that all Australian works which are public domain in Australia
> (but not public domain in the United States) are also public domain in
> India and Canada.  We need to check this with lawyers.
>
> Wherever this new 'Wikisource' is located, the chapter needs to be
> careful to ensure it maintains the high standards of copyright
> compliance that Wikisource achieves.
>

Agree with John.

And Gautam, it is a good idea -- should be an interesting project to take
up.

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