Thanks - I'll change the wording. Susan
Mike Marseglia wrote:
> On Mon, November 29, 2004 18:12, Susan W Pieroth said:
>
>>All material donated to any portion of the USGenWeb Project, including
>>the Rhode Island portion, belong to the person who donated it. Should
>
>
> Not really.. Here's what's at the bottom of:
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/article218.html.
>
> "These documents are made available free to the public for
> non-commercial
> purposes by the Rhode Island USGenWeb Project. Transcription and
> pictures
> 2003 by Beth Hurd"
>
> This does not say "some rights reserved", "all rights reserved",
or
> "mostly free". It says "free for non-commercial use". It also
doesn't
> specify that the original copyright must remain intact when the material
> is redistributed.
>
>
>>the transcriber wish to donate it to Project Gutenberg, or any other
>>site (as has been done occasionally) s/he is free to do so. The donator
>>may also request that the material be removed from the RIGenWeb site.
>
>
> Transcribers can request that material be removed; but they already gave
> it away for free so they don't have the -right- to have it removed.
>
>
>>The coordinator does not have the right to take the material with her
>>when she resigns or to donate/copy it without permission.
>
>
> Free means free. Anyone, not just the transcriber, can take these
> materials and freely do whatever so long as they don't make a buck.
>
> If a transcriber really wants to restrict work they should use a real
> copyright license; like one from the Creative Commons.
>
http://www.creativecommons.org
>
> And this just struck me as really odd.. reread this for a second...
>
>
>>All material donated to any portion of the USGenWeb Project, including
>>the Rhode Island portion, belong to the person who donated it. Should
>
>
> "All material donated ... belong to the person who dontated it". if I
> donate something, I give up my rights and pass it on to the receiving
> organization? I.e. I donate $20 to the Salvation Army at Christmas.
>
> Otherwise it wouldn't really be a donation, it would be a loan.
>
> So are the materials donated or are they on loan?
>
>
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