Jatland copyright policy

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narenderkharb said:
Who will have the ownership ,if a writer submits an article via post here on jatland ,writer or jatland site?
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Any material a member posts on the site needs to be original work or under a free license or under a fair use clause. To that extent, the member owns the copyright. Of course, it also means the member is responsible for making sure that nothing that is protected by another copyright (exceptions above) is copied.

So lets see: A member posts something here, and then wants to monetize it (say, sell the article to a publication). IMHO, he/she can choose to monetize it without asking the site, but can not ask the site to take it down.

Thus the member/poster is the owner of the content, but once he/she chooses to post on the site, can not exclude the site from using it.

On the separate issue of what the license involves: A reading of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) makes interesting reading...

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

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2. VERBATIM COPYING
You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.
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My understanding of the text above is that once the text is under GFDL (as per the site's policy), the copyright owner can not object to its reuse etc. However, the copyright needs to be acknowledged everytime, hence the refer back to the site...
 
Jatland Wiki Copyright Policy Draft

Jatland Wiki contributors have licensed to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) under which Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Jatland Wiki content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Jatland Wiki article used. A direct link back to the article on Jatland satisfies our author credit requirement.

Jatland Wiki articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.

The Jatland does not own copyright on Jatland Wiki article texts and illustrations. It is therefore useless asking for permission to reproduce its content.

The permissions to reproduce Jatland Wiki content in accordance with these conditions are granted without request.
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Note:- Based on above discussions above Jatland Wiki Copyright Policy Draft proposal has been prepared. If members feel to add any correction it may be suggested. If it is finalized it may be put on Jatland Wiki Copyright Policy page for implementation.

Regards,
 
Overall, think it summarizes the discussion... We can provide a link to GFDL, so as not to repeat its details...


lrburdak said:
Jatland Wiki articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.

The Jatland does not own copyright on Jatland Wiki article texts and illustrations. It is therefore useless asking for permission to reproduce its content.
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The second statement is probably incorrect. Jatland does own the copyright, but has decided to (per this policy) share it under GFDL. if there is no copyright, where is the question of having to provide a link back etc... ? Hence we need to just say something like, "Subject to the above policy, no explicit permission needs to be taken to reproduce contect, so long as the conditions (eg: link back etc) are met"..

Also, wonder if these statements are better suited as an explanation than as a part of the policy ?
 
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