Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Copyright issues...

[Toby Tremayne]

two things about this though -

a) is it feasable to think of looking at all of these articles and ensuring
somehow that the content is not plaguarised?

b) while guidelines for submission and content are going to be necessary, is
it going to push people away from it if they have to spend too much time
messing about with citations etc?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Uzelac <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, 18 January 2001 11:11
Subject: [Bug-gnupedia] Copyright issues...


>Though I'm a programmer, my interest in this project lies mainly in
>contributing articles.
>
>What concerns me are possible legal problems that could arise.  Not all
>contributors are going to write their articles completely off the tops of
>their heads.  We don't want to have issues of plagarism on our hands.  Now,
>there's nothing wrong with that since nobody has first-hand experience with
>such things as the Revolutionary War.  It is just important to make sure
>that a contributor includes bibliographical information his his or her
>submission.
>
>I suggest that it be required to submit a list of all refrenced works with
>the submission of an article.
>
>At the very least, they should include publisher's information, author,
>title, volume number, editor (etc...).
>
>It may also be a good idea to come up with a convention of citing quotes
>from these sources, if direct quotes from different works are used in the
>article.  The MLA method (www.mla.org) has worked for me through all my
>years of schooling and may be appropriate for this case.
>
>-Chris
>
>
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