“ I have long contended that since copyright is a property right there can be no copyright if there is no owner. No-one but an owner has a right of action in a copyright infringement case. This ultimately is the problem with orphan copyrights. An essential burden in an infringement case is for the plaintiff to prove that there is a valid copyright. ”

“ Although a dedication to the public domain may not be recognized in some jurisdictions, most (or at least the United States) do recognize waivers or transfers of rights. In the case at hand, the author (presumably the copyright holder) waives all rights, which is equivalent to releasing the works under a license that waives all rights. Such licenses (including Creative Commons licenses) have never been tried in court, so such a release is no less uncertain than the entirety of our freely licensed content. ”

“ It's difficult to understand how anyone can claim copyright over a text which they themselves have claimed to have been passed down through many generations and which manifestly contains lines taken from other sources that also claimed to have inherited them. ”

“ I have suggested a solution; however I resent someone with an agenda of removing links to my website from Wikipedia copying material from it and pasting it to Wikisource for that purpose, something Ecemaml does not deny. The text on my site was from a document in English which may be crown copyright in the UK when reproduced on a Government website, but my source was different. As Wikipedia is in effect published internationally it should comply with more than US legislation, and the Gibraltar Act cited derives from the latest EU directive on Intellectual Property. ”

“ Copyright exists automatically upon creation in a tangible form. An author does not need to apply for or even claim copyright for a copyright to exist. Only an explicit statement that the material is in the public domain, licensed with the GFDL, or is otherwise compatible with the GFDL, makes material reusable under current policy, unless it is inherently in the public domain due to age or source. ”

“ As others have, tactfully and otherwise, stated; simply typing out or hosting a work does not grant you any control over it. If I type out the American Constitution, or War & Peace, I cannot claim that I have copyright over those online copies; because unfortunately while I put work into them, they are simply public domain texts. Likewise, unless you translated this English copy yourself, you do not have any say in what can be done with it. If the 1987 publisher translated it themselves, they have copyright, but if they simply copied it from an official English translation of the text ”

“ This is the reason {{PD-release}} on Commons states the release in two ways (as this author has) : "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."
As such, I've kept all the works that carry the explicit waiver of copyright (The Mystique of Enlightenment [1] , Courage to Stand Alone [2] , Mind is a myth [3] , and No Way Out [4] ) . ”

“ If you translated the work yourself from the Spanish, you might be able to claim copyright on it, or otherwise the translator might be able to claim copyright on it. I'm not entirely sure how Spanish/English Crown copyright works with derivatives/translations, so I can't really comment much on it. If it is indeed public domain, no matter what Intellectual Property Act you quote, there is no way you can claim copyright over public domain material, unless you have extensively edited it into a new form. To Ecemaml: That's interesting. ”

“ Letters from the Earth is a copyrightable work; (2) the entity that owned the rights to Mark Twain's unpublished work (The Mark Twain Foundation) did in fact copyright the work in 1962; (3) it renewed the copyright in 1990; and so (4) it should fall under the category of works published between 1923 and 1963 with notice and renewal (Help:Copyright and Wikisource) , which should mean that the work is still in copyright. As near as I can tell from 17 U.S.C. § 304 the copyright should be in effect either 95 years from the original copyright date or 67 years from the renewal ”

“ In addition to collecting PD works, we are also in the business of promoting the early release of works by copyright holders, under free licenses. Because if we dont, countless pieces of work will end up in some archive that is physically inaccessible, in "box of letters" fashion, and inevitable some of those archives will accidentally go up in flames and nobody will know what was lost. ”

“ Author:Arthur Schopenhauer 20:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC) The factual framework here is much simplified by the knowledge that paranormal forces were not at work. To quote the case cited "There is no question, of course, that if Schucman had been a "scribe" for Thetford (for example) , she would lack the requisite originality for copyright protection. But she was not a scribe for any human creator. She was a scribe for a voice she heard in her own mind." The claim in the present case is that the information was received from the grandmother by normal rather than paranormal means. ”

“ According to the current law of Ghana, it says that "Copyright subsists during the life of the copyright holder and 50 years after his death...In the case of published works, copyright subsists for a period of 50 years from the date of first publication." which suggests that the death+50 is only for unpublished works to protect the person's privacy - while published works are date+50, which would mean this work expired in 1986, by current law. ”

“ As I said, Kaczyncki's cries for attention and significance deserves to be put in the back of line behind the multitude of living and deceased authors who earned their significance, even if they came to wholly erroneous conclusions, by respecting the great conversation that marks Western Civilization, which at a bare minimum includes respecting the lives of the members of the society on which it is based. ”

“ Poetlister 19:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC) Not necessarily. If there is no assignment of copyright, the author of each work in a collective work retains copyright in their own work. If she was Canadian, a different set of rules do come into play, even though it was published in the U.S. (see here) . As far as I can see, it all comes down to whether the Green Egg magazine issue #69 (1975) was published in accordance with the formalities. It is possible to search the 1975 copyright registration/renewal scans in order to know for sure. ”

“ Be sure to know it will be the last time we "collaborate" on a project barring the next time you choose to reward an individual whose only claim to notability is the fatal and widespread application of his criminal skills. ”

“ As far as I can see, it was the UK Copyright Act of 1911 that applied. Wikipedia doesnt have an article on that (yet) , and I dont think we have the source (yet) . John Vandenberg (chat) 06:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC) If a newspaper reporter writes a scandalous piece, he can be charged himself with libel/incitement/whatever - rather than the newspaper. I see no evidence that the Post would not have been the copyright holder since he was writing for them at the time. ”

“ I am the owner of the website www.gibnet.com and assert that the user Ecemaml copied and pasted the text from my site to created the article. If that is not the case it would be interesting to know where he claims that text came from. My website is published in Gibraltar and its content is protected under the Intellectual Property (Copyright and related rights) Act 2004 There is little point in asking Ecemam1 anything as he has a declared agenda - however I believe the complaint to Wikisource was entered correctly and is valid. ”

“ I don’t know of any reference sources on the history of Ghanaian copyright law; anyone have any hints on where we might look? Tarmstro99 01:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC) Delete I don't think it matters whether the copyright lapsed into the public domain at some point before 1985. Since it was restored to 50 pma in 1985, on January 1, 1996 the copyright was still in force and will be until 2016. So it's treated as if it's under U.S. copyright law, that is until 2030. ”

“ It wasn't until the publication of the Iowa Center for Textual Studies edition (in the volume What is Man) that this bit of editorial manipulation was revealed. The Wikisource Letters from the Earth appears to be Devoto's version; the conclusion to "Satan's Letter" is suppressed and the letters from the second MS are numbered consecutively. (In the Iowa Textual Studies edition the unfinished state of "Satan's Letter" is not suppressed, and the letters are either unnumbered or numbered irregularly--I forget which.) ”

“ I have done a lot of work at W:Wikipedia:Copyright problems and unless the release is unquestionable I have always deleted the content from Wikipedia and have not (to my knowledge) been reversed on any such deletions. The question we have here; is there an unquestionable release for the body of work in Thought is Your Enemy? ”

“ It is there! It's the third paragraph. You have missed it. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thought_is_Your_Enemy Actually I do see it posted on web pages, by people who are not the author, what I don't see is the release in the published version Krishnamurti, U.G. (2002) . Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With Ug. Smriti Books. pp. 148 pages. ISBN:8187967110. . There is nothing else to add, we wait to see if a Wikisource admin will accept the release given in other works as applying to this work as well, or if the work will be removed from Wikisource. ”

“ She asserted that her grandmother had bequeathed to her a book in which the text was present, but that she had destroyed the book. No evidence exists to support her claim. This is well documented in the publication to which I referred above. Paul B 14:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC) (unindent) For copyright purposes, then, the author whose rights must be investigated is Gwen Thompson, who published the work in 1975, because as User:Paul B put it, “no evidence exists” to support a claim of authorship by anyone else. ”

“ I tagged it as PD-1923 due to this note; more fool me. The 1905 publication year could still be right, as the translator died in 1935, according to Wikipedia, but that would probably mean it was published in the Philippines, which means we have a new set of copyright laws to investigate: w:List of countries' copyright length says 50 pma; w:Philippine copyright law says nothing on the topic. An anon user changed his year of death to 1982.
It does appear to have been published in the US in 1961, and doesnt appear in the renewal databases under Guerrero, so that edition is PD-US-no-renewal. ”

“ Author:John McCain and Author:Barack Obama 20:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC) Delete The key date is 1965 not 1936. If the rule was life+25 at the time of the author's death that time was not over in 1985 when the law was apparently changed to life+50, and that longer period had not yet expired in 2005 when it was further extended. The conviction for sedition is based on an entirely different part of the law; owning the copyright has no relevance to the conviction. (Was copyright even mentioned in the text of that court ruling?) ”

“ If it have nothing to do with speeches, the {{PD-manifesto}} need to be splited. Why you have assumed bad faith reverting and getting annoyed? My only interest is to keep the Wikisource a free project, like you. If you look closely at pt:Discussão:Estatuto do PCC you can see a atempt to research for their copyright status following the brazilian law. ”

“ Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui and is very clearly modern. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Charles Spurgeon 01:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC) Comment, I have emailed the MSA department at USC, asking them about the copyright status of the work and the translator. I'll give them a while to respond, but in the meantime I'm going to blank the work. If they do not respond and no further information comes forward, I would favor deletion. ”

“ Oddly, the name on one of them is "Jairazbhoy, Cassamally", author of "The Suicide of Turkey" and others, and Vice-President of the Moslem League according to . This link may be correct, as the Turkish Military Library contains a copy of "Fear Allah and take your own part", and at the back of the book hosted by archive.org (and listed on Author:Qassim Ali Jairazbhoy) we see this author has also published a book called "Turkey and India". ”