User talk:Lee
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Could you please, add information about: author, copyright status and where and when this work was published.
Ankry (talk) 21:23, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
- I am moving these pages from Sinhala Wikibooks, because they are tagged for move. But I do not have all the information on copyrights ready with me. Do you have any suggestion on what I should do? --Lee (talk) 02:57, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
- You should not move pages with unclear copyright status or without evidence of earlier publication to Wikisource. They may be considered out of scope. If somebody is requesting a page to be moved here or moving it, they are expected to provide the required information. Ankry (talk) 14:01, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Concerning copyrigt status, we need an evidence:
- that the work was published before 1923, or
- that it was not copyrited in the initial publication country in 1996 (if first published 1923-Feb 1989), or
- that its author died more than 70 years ago (if first published in March 1989 or later), or
- that it was initially published in 1923-1977 in US (some extra conditions apply then), or
- that it is not copyrygted (eg. because it is some legal document), or
- that the work's author or their heirs published it under CC-BY-SA or CC-BY license.
If the text was first published in 1969, I think that any of the above is unlikely. Ankry (talk) 14:21, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
- hmmm.... I think you are right. However this book "සූර්ය්ය ශතකය" seems to be a much older book, say something like originally published 200-300 years ago. I searched the net and got this information on a much recent revision/publication (which I included there). So there is a chance that the text I moved might be in public domain. Is there a way to check on that? --Lee (talk) 14:52, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
- If this is posthumous publication, many years after author's death, it is likely that it has been PD already when published. {{PD-old}} applies than. And some info about the author on the author page (especially when did he live or when died) would be useful. I failed to find anything in Sinhala Wikipedia, however. Ankry (talk) 12:12, 18 July 2018 (UTC)