I am not trying to make money off of anything. In fact, the current
license prohibits commercial use so I couldn't make a buck even if I
wanted to.
All I'd like is to see whole books, completely transcribed in a single
ASCII text file.
What's the big deal?
On Tue, November 30, 2004 9:26, TheGenseeker said:
For goodness sake. Just use it for research purposes. End of story.
Don't
make money on someone else's effort. that's it. Sheesh. Enough
nit-picking,
already.
Cinda
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Marseglia [mailto:mike@marseglia.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 6:29 AM
To: RIGENWEB-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [RIGENWEB] Gutenberg Project & RIGenWeb Transcriptions
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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