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On 11/2/2015 8:20 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Gleki Arxokuna scripsit:
>
>> la lojbab added "We do need to settle the copyright issue before we assume
>> any sort of official responsibility for any medium...I want Cowan to opine
>> on the copyright matter, since he was the other person besides myself to
>> create the current policy."
>
> As I've said before, I would have used a Creative Commons license if
> they had existed then, and I think we should use one for all our stuff
> now: CC-BY (requires attribution only) or at most CC-BY-SA (requires
> attribution, forbids distribution of derivative works under any other
> license).  I would favor simple CC-BY, as CC-BY-SA prevent people from
> incorporating just part of a work into your own (but too much to be
> called fair use) and selling it to a publisher.  For us, all publicity
> is good publicity.

That is the other side of the copyright problem, and we should adopt 
such a policy as you state, clarifying which stuff it applies to (which 
does not include writings and translations by people using the language).

But right now, the problem is that people are putting things up on the 
LLG owned pages which are translations of copyrighted works.  And there 
are several such works now up there, such as Berenstein Bears children's 
stories, and the much discussed Little Prince translation.  There are 
also musical works in copyright that have been translated and are up on 
the music page.  I don't know if any of the videos on YouTube have 
translations of copyrighted material.  So far as I know, none of these 
people have sought permissions.

I believe it was you who set an absolute policy of not linking to 
anything copyrighted (The Little Prince I think was one of those), and 
Robin supported you on that (as did I, but I wasn't running the 
website), but the website these days is being modified by all sorts of 
people who don't know or care about LLG policies.

This sort of thing can get us in hot water in the US, but also in other 
countries like the UK who have even stronger copyright laws.

lojbab


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