Wikisource talk:Copyright policy
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[edit] Copyright law(s) used at Wikisource
What is the copyright law(s) relevant on Wikisource? Is it the American copyright law? The problem arises with works of authors from countries with different copyright law than the US. Is the date of publication or the death's date of the author which matters? Several cases I can see:
- Works of M. K. Gandhi (1869-1948) and of Indian authors who died after 1943 published before 1923. (public domain in India: death + 60 years)
- Works of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)?
- Works of French authors who died after 1933 published before 1923. (public domain in France: death + 70 years). Examples: Raymond Boudon, Henri Duvernois, Maurice Leblanc, Henri Bergson, Ernest Pérochon, Romain Rolland, Jean Giraudoux, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Paul Valéry, Tristan Bernard, Georges Bernanos, André Gide, Colette...
- Works of French authors who died between 1923 and 1933. Examples: Albert Londres, Georges Courteline, Gaston Leroux.
Yann 11:46, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Licence(s)
Which licence(s) to use for texts which I have written and I would like to publish on Wikisource? Apart from public domain and GFDL, is there any other possibility? Yann 12:06, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Please answer this question, and make it clear on the page. For example can a text tagged with "Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved." be uploaded to Wikisource? --213.67.47.131 21:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
- Could be GFDL or Creative Commons Share ALike. Yann 23:12, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Possible copyright violations
It is inevitable that people will submit copyright materal. If you come across a text which you believe is a copyright violation please list it at Wikisource:Possible copyright violations.
[edit] Not only GFDL
Hi,
Obviously this copyright page was imported from Wikipedia and was not adapted as needed here. Most of the texts contributed here are in the public domain because copyright has expired. I started updating it, but more is needed. Yann 23:05, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
- It would be great if this page wopuld be adapted on Wikisource. I have just thought about translating some necessary parts into Czech, but it seems to be difficult how it is here. And more over, if I compare the page with the German one - see s:de:Wikisource:Urheberrecht - so there are big differences. As I am not qualified enough in these questions i cannot help. But would welcome someone's work. -jkb- 14:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Are we going to apply s:en:Wikisource:Copyright policy here to disallow fair use and non-commercial licenses?--Jusjih 17:12, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Translations of public domain sources
Hello. An important element of copyright which I feel is not treated sufficiently directly on this page is the issue of modern/recent translations of public domain source works. The policy noted here states that translations of copyrighted works are derivative works, and remain connected to the copyright of the original work. But what about translations of public domain works? Are translations of public domain works considered to be "original" enough that they too are covered by the copyright of the translator, and cannot be simply copied out of a recent/modern publication as if they were as copyright-free as the original which they translate?
Thank you. LordAmeth 13:10, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- For all translations is to say: they are a work like the original text. That means, if somebody translates something, the translation is copyrighted in the same way as a separate work, that means it will be public domain either (normally) 70 years after the death of the translator or if the translator declares it is PD od GFDL or... One condition is to be cared off: first the original text must get PD and then the translation (i.e. if you translate today something what is copyrighted and if you declare your translation PD, so it has a meaning for the future, but is not a PD so long as the original is not). -jkb- 14:08, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
