[Wikipedia-l] Crown Copyright and the GNU FDL

[Ray Saintonge]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>It seems that some of our ship text has been copied from websites using the 
>Crown Copyright which reads in part;
>
>"....may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, 
>private study or for internal circulation within an organisation."
>
>That may cover Wikipedia itself but not downstream users of our text.
>
>"This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a 
>misleading context."
>
>"Where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or 
>copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the 
>copyright status acknowledged."
>
>What say you?
>
With Canadian Crown Copyright prior permission is required to for the 
use of all such material except extracts from laws and court decisions. 
 Technically even reproducing a Canadian stamp without permission is a 
violation of copyright.  Each stamp has a copyright notice on it.  Of 
course, how this is practically admministered may be another story.

Ec