User talk:EmmaV

Re: Penka Batoewa

In that case you should place a notice at the talk pages of each of her works stating that the copyright owners have given their permission to publish her works here, as her works are probably still copyright protected by law (the copyright is owned by her direct decendants unless she has testamented the copyright to somebody else, but your comment indicates that she has not). The notices should be made to avoid future complaints about copyvio. --Christian S 15:30, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for answere. Can you restore delet pages? Best regards. --EmmaV 16:13, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The pages are now restored. They weren't actually deleted yet, just blanked. By following the "Page history" link you get a list of all the versions of the page. You can then restore an old version by clicking on that version, then click "edit this page" and save it. You get a warning that you are editing an old version, but you can ignore that if your intention is to restore that old version. (If the pages had actually been deleted, only an administrator could have restored them.) Copyright is important to this project, and some kind of permission notice or other arguments that uploading a text here is not a copyvio should always be made, if the text is not in the public domain according to ordinary copyrigt laws, see Wikisource:Copyright :-)--Christian S 17:27, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks Emma for your response. On a personal level I have no reason to doubt your authority to publish your grandmother's poetry. I would perhaps be more strict in my requirements than Christian. On the face of it your grandmother's poems will not enter the public domain until the end of the year 2038 based on the Bulgarian copyright law provision of life + 50 years. In other words the right to publish her poems must be good for the next 34 years.

No policy has yet been written on this matter, so what follows is simply my proposal. It does not yet imply any obligation on your part to go along with what I am saying.

In my mind granting a license should involve declaring the following:

1. Who you are, and the city, [state], and country where you live,
2. Exactly what works are being considered,
3. That you have the right to license the works,
4. What your relationship is to the author,
5. If you are not the author, how you acquired those rights,
6. That you are granting a licence under the GNU Free Documentation License
7. That you understand that (subject to their acceptance of the licence) the material may be copied by downstream users, and
8. That you indemnify the Wikimedia Foundation from any liability arising from any impropriety in the granting of the licence.

Dealing with this kind of thing now could save some big headaches in the future. Eclecticology 21:22, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Electicologys suggestion to what the licence should include seems reasonable, and I think that following them would be a good idea, as I'm not sure the statements as they are will hold in court, should it ever for some reason come to a trial (hopefully it won't). I hope it's not too much trouble, but this is important stuff! --Christian S 03:33, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you Emma for the notice. It is quite correct that you put the statement in your own language. Although I do not understand Bulgarian, my little experience with Russian is enough to give me the impression that your statement seems to satisfy what I was asking. In identifying yourself, I think that city and country is enough. We don't need the street address; this may expose your privacy too much. If you want to remove the street, please do. After that I can move the statement to make sure that it is clear for all the poems that you have contributed. Again, thank you for being very easy to deal with. Eclecticology 17:02, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you all. According of your suggestion I remove the street address. Best regards. --EmmaV 10:20, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)