On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Eugene Zelenko <eugene.zele...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's reasonable to account country of origin copyrights laws > too as Commons does, especially with Wikisource editions other then > English, where majority of text most likely originated outside of USA. > And majority of audience also likely to be outside of USA.
The Wikisource projects are not a single project like Commons, nor is it structured like Wikipedia. If I want to add a French text onto Wikisource, I must go to the French Wikisource project, and abide by their policies. I can not do it on English Wikisource. e.g. http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:La_pornocratie,_ou_Les_femmes_dans_les_temps_modernes.djvu If I want to read a text that was written in French, I will most likely need to go to French Wikisource, unless there is a English translation has been published and is in the public domain. Some Wikisource projects do allow "Wikisource" translations, but that is a different barrel of worms. http://wikisource.org/wiki/WS:COORD It would be nice to have usage statistics for the Wikisource projects, indicating where their user base is. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
