[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[Ray Saintonge]

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

>Roger Luethi wrote:
>  
>
>> It is not so much about copyright reform as it is about investing money
>>
>>rather than spending it, and this is a rare opportunity to talk about that.
>>
>>Another example, unrelated to copyright reform: Wikipedia editors need
>>access to primary sources, particularly academic journals. The fate of
>>current ventures in Open Access journals largely determines whether most
>>potential Wikipedia editors will have easy access to the sources they need
>>in the years to come, and funding for these journals (or lack thereof) will
>>be a major factor.
>>    
>>
>Right. There are journal archives around with stuff going back hundreds
>of years, but they claim copyright on all their materials; if we could
>free that which already qualifies for PD-old, it would be a major step
>in the right direction.
>
Being copyright is not just a simple matter of claiming copyright.  The 
old stuff is already free; it doesn't need any more freeing.  The law 
decides, not the claimants.  If it qualifies just use it.

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