i'm not a big wikipedia guy so i'm not too comfortable navigating this, but it looks like *someone* (volunteers?) needs to follow the instructions listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Possible_copyright_infringements#Octo ber_4
after the text is removed, i think it'd be great to put up the project gutenberg version. (url below) i guess i just dont think it's a good idea to violate the church's copyright. doesn't seem right to me. ;-) Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Josh Coates Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 8:53 AM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: RE: [uug] Edit the Book of Mormon looks like young mr. biggins (http://wikisource.org/wiki/User:Biggins) has made an error in judgement. looks like he is also leaving on a mission and won't be back until 2006. it appears to me that he made a copy of the 1981 version of the book of mormon, WHICH IS UNDER COPYRIGHT and put it online. this is simply against the law. the 1830 version would be legal to put online. in fact, it's been online for quite a while under project guttenberg : http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/17 so, what to do? Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Halcrow Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 5:01 AM To: stuporglue; BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] Edit the Book of Mormon On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:56:41PM -0600, stuporglue wrote: > All your favorite scriptures are now yours to edit. That's right. If > there were ever commandments you didn't like, passages you thought > should have been added, or texts that could be made clearer, you can > now edit them yourselves! > Edit now! > The Book of Mormon: http://wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mormon The part that concerns me is at the bottom: ``Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License.'' Ummmmm... most of that content IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. You can't apply a license to something without a copyright. Are these people trying to claim copyright over the Book of Mormon text that fell into the public domain decades ago, and then trying to impose a set of restrictions on that text (i.e., derivative works must fall under the same conditions, license statement must accompany copies, etc.)? The other part that concerns me are the chapter headings. The Church still holds a valid copyright over that text. wikisource.org appears to not only be violating the Church's copyright, but they are also attempting to relicense the Church's works without its permission! Note that I am not supporting copyright law; I'm just pointing out an apparent violation of that law. Mike ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
