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Status: Back for the weekend. bd2412 T ^(e)

I am a Wikipedian. You can talk to me there as well. BD2412 T 00:18, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Welcome to Wikisource, BD2412 1.1 Additional Information 2 vauge PD release on copyvio 3 [edit] political candidate speech in public domain 4 The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary 5 Dissenting Report of Mr. Greeley With Reference to the Revision of the Trademark Law headerless 6 Comment re Credentials 7 Your opinion please [edit] Welcome to Wikisource, BD2412 A Cordial Greeting From the Wikisource community Hello, BD2412, welcome to Wikisource! Thank you for your recent contributions and future influence on this online library. We hope you find pleasure and enjoyment from other users. We are glad to have you in our community! Here are a few links for you and others, to better educate yourself on what being a user means and how to get the most out of your participation: How To Edit a Page Guidelines for adding documents Uploading Images and Files Using Templates Information Boxes Author Pages Page Length Special Characters Footnotes and Endnotes Locking the Text Digitising Texts and Images Editing Poetry Text Editors Mathematical Displays Editing Tools Copyright Information Wikification and Wikisource Requests for Assistance [edit] Additional Information Always sign messages on talk pages with your user name. Typing ~~~~ will automatically add do this. Please read and follow Guidelines for adding documents If you have any questions or concerns, please see the Help Pages or add a question to the Scriptorium If you have any issues that you cannot resolve, contact an Administrator or another user at their respective talk pages.

BD2412 T 00:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] vauge PD release on copyvio

If you have some time, and can see an aspect of copyright law that could be clarified regarding the works in question, your opinion on this would be appreciated at WS:COPYVIO#Thought_is_Your_Enemy. I dont think we need a legal opinion regarding Sherurcij's opinion; he is quite clear he is voicing his opinion in lieu of something more substantive being offered. :-)

Alternatively, if you can put me towards some case law dealing with similar cases, I'll fetch them and do some research. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 22:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] [edit] political candidate speech in public domain

Hi I notice that you said "speeches of political candidates for federal office made in their official capacity are government works in the public domain" in this article http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Talk:Remarks_of_Senator_Barack_Obama_on_New_Hampshire_Primary_Night I adapted a Barack Obama speech into a song. Could you tell me how I can prove to naysayers that the speech is Public Domain.

Thanks,

70.187.190.56 20:47, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I would refer to 17 U.S.C. § 105 Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works

Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

Now, whether this applies to candidate speeches is a question of interpretation, but since there are no cases in which a candidate has successfully sued to prevent distribution of a speech made while running for office, it is generally understood that such speeches themselves fall in the public domain. Naysayers often point to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, which was held to be protected by copyright. However, MLK was neither an elected official, nor a candidate for office. Cheers! BD2412 T 22:59, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary

BD2412,

With the The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary text can we try a different edition? I have been having a lot of problems converting it. Please let me know by leaving a message on my talk page. Thanks. --Mattwj2002 (talk) 06:52, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Dissenting Report of Mr. Greeley With Reference to the Revision of the Trademark Law headerless

Gday BD. When you are back, it would be great if you could add a {{header}} to the above work. Thx-- billinghurst (talk) 15:18, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

• Mark this as done. BD2412 T 16:41, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Comment re Credentials

Gday BD2412. I do not think that there is any particular need to produce credentials to support your claim. While that level of authenticity is lovely, it would seem overkill especially in this circumstance. Your expertise shows through in your long history of edits here and at WP. (all in my opinion)-- billinghurst (talk) 16:33, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Expertise and credentials are two different things. I'd like to avoid the kind of doubts raised by the Essjay debacle. BD2412 T 16:42, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I am a little wary about creating a precedent for "Complain bitterly and repeatedly to win an argument". If you wish to pursue, probably best is something to info@wikisource.org (which is User:Bookofjude}}, and if we truly need to store an opinion, then we could look to get something into OTRS.-- billinghurst (talk) 16:51, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand your point. Am I the one complaining in this scenario? BD2412 T 18:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Absolutely not, your commentary has been specific and relevant. More to those who complain about an issue from a lay/personal position, then, through continuing discussing and then to a point of demanding credentials and to which someone then feels obliged to produce them. It isn't a technique that should be required, or demanded, or be allowed to be become the expected, nor set a precedent. A statement of expertise and credentials should be sufficient for this sort of debate where the only consequence being the keeping or deleting of an article. billinghurst (talk) 00:52, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

I understand your desire not to feed the trolls, and that my making such a confirmation may encourage doubters to demand similar assurances from others. I'd still rather just have it done and out there for all time, but I won't press the issue. Cheers! BD2412 T 21:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Your opinion please

Hello, Could you please give your opinion about the copyright status of Wikisource:Possible copyright violations#An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth. Thanks, Yann (talk) 23:43, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

• I appreciated your input on Palin's copyright violation discussion and thought maybe you could also help clear the air on Barack Obama's Super Bowl Pre-Game Interview. I'm wondering if an interview conducted within the White House itself (not in an NBC studio or program) for broadcast later can actually have any question of copyright violation → especially since a transcription of the interview has also been published by the Government Printing Office after the interview was aired. I might be inclined to accept the audio/video being protected but I can't see how a transcription is also covered - or is it? George Orwell III (talk) 19:40, 19 October 2009 (UTC)