Talk:Greek administration of Smyrna (1919–1922)

Copying to Wikisource

The events described in this text take place before 1923, but was it first published before 1923? The Blight of Asia, the source of this text, seems to have first been published in in 1926. This will need to be cleared up before this work can be moved to Wikisource. --Benn Newman 21:38, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The text from "The Blight of Asia" is not a candidate for copying to WikiSource as it is still under copyright protection and will remain so until 2018. See the "Copyvio" section below for details. --Richard 06:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio

I am responsible for copying the text from "Blight of Asia" which is now being claimed to be a copyright violation. Although I did not think it was a copyright violation at the time that I copied the text, I now recognize that it is a copyright violation and have rewritten the article to address the copyvio issues. The rewritten text can be found in Talk:Greek administration of Smyrna (1919-1922)/Temp.

When I created this article, I thought I had two defenses against claims of copyright violation: an "expired copyright" defense and a "fair use" defense. After some research this evening, I have discovered that I was wrong about the "expired copyright" defense. The book was copyrighted in 1926 and the copyright was renewed in 1953. The renewal was good for 47 years and thus would have expired for 2000 except that Congress passed a law in 1998 extending all copyrights in force by 20 years. Aha, now I have learned why works published before 1923 are clearly in the public domain and those published afterwards may not be.

I still maintain that there is a "fair use" defense based on lack of substantial copying. The text in question is only 5-6 paragraphs from a book that is 28 chapters long. However, since it was never my intention to leave the copied text as a lengthy verbatim quote from the book, I have taken this opportunity to rewrite the text. I believe the rewritten text addresses the charge of copyright violation.

--Richard 06:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the rewritten text addresses the problem. I don't know the exact procedure here. But I have no objections to you replacin the the text and removing the template.--BirgitteSB 19:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)139.