Sascha Manns wrote:
Copyright law worldwide is remarkably uniform, and on most "free use" issues, the same result is achieved. If you're trying to make a use case that's so close to the line that it's legal in, say, England, but not legal in, say, the United States, you're cutting it way too close to the line. Better to just have a good understanding of general free use principles that are universal and stick to those.
ATM we doing so: * We just using a Article in whole for the Weekly News if the Original Article is licensed under CC-BY-SA. * All other Articles who doesn't match this License we just introduce with 2 or 3 Paragraphs.
Please refer to my another post in this thread. If 'introducing with 2 or 3 Paragraphs' won't cause any problem according to German law, that's not enough (which country's law we should refer to is not yet clear).
In all Cases we linking to the Original Article and we adding $SITE/$AUTHOR before the Title of the Article.
I propose to use this Legalnotice for the Weekly News:
This compilation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (unless expressly otherwise indicated) by the openSUSE Weekly News Team. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons 171 Second Street Suite 300 San Francisco California 94105 USA.
If any Article doesn't match this License we can add the Copyrightnotice of the Original Article on the End of the Newsletter.
Maybe this is a solution?
I don't think just adding the copyright notice is enough, because copyright and license are different things. Who is the copyright owner and which license is applied to the work are on the different layers. We, Japanese team have added the 'Disclaimer' section to OWN Japanese edition, in which we mention: "All content on this website is made available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 ("GFDL") unless expressly otherwise indicated. See the details at 'Terms of site (English)' page. openSUSE Weekly News Japanese Edition (hereinafter, "OWN-ja") are edited by OWN-ja team based on openSUSE Weekly News original English Edition and all rights of the articles from external sites are owned by original copyright owners. If you want to re-use the contents in this News, please follow the license of each original work. In addition, all translations in OWN-ja are just referential translations by OWN-ja tean and the correctness of contents and translations are by no means guaranteed." http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/161#.E5.85.8D.E8.B2.AC.E4.BA.8B.... I don't think this solves all the problem, but it may be better than nothing. ;-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org