User:Rogerhc
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Roger :-)
In <see, do, eat, etc. > tags, use an alt="" attribute for translation of the item name.
Wikitravel:Romanization#Chinese
- Some Name (小中国 Xiao Zhongguo), 83 Some Road, Some District, Some City, ☎ 00-000-000-000. Description goes here. ¥100. edit
[edit] Contact
roger at rogerchrisman dot com
Roger Chrisman (650) 387-4732 Palo Alto, California
[edit] Projects
Wikigogy.org — to pick up for English teachers where Wikitravel and Wikipedia let off.
[edit] IB stuff
[edit] Roger's Wikitravel bookmarks
[edit] Roger's work space
[edit] Map
- Watch this NASA satellite image project: http://worldwindcentral.com
- Maybe this CC-by-sa 2.5 licensed vector map site (but I'm having trouble opening its .ps or .ai files on Linux!): http://www.planiglobe.com/
[edit] Copyright law leads and references
[edit] Copyrights discussed
- Wikipedia. Wikipedia uses a Gnu Free Documentation License while Wikitravel uses a Creative Commons copyright. Still, much relevant and well presented research about copyrights is on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
[edit] International Copyright law references
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Text 1971): http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html
- Universal Copyright Convention as revised at Paris on 24 July 1971:
- Per section http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/copyright/html_eng/page1.shtml
- Whole thing on one page http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/intprop/pariscnv.html
[edit] USA Copyright law references
[edit] Fair Use (part of US copyright law)
"Fair use" forbids damaging the original work's sales in the marketplace. So we need to label clearly any stuff we have on the site that is here by virtue of fair use and thus cannot be used commercially in a way that would damage the original work's sales in the marketplace. Wikipedia has this problem, too.
- US Copyright Office on "fair use" -> http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
- Just because US law says we can does not mean we need to choose to do this. Wikitravel:Copyright details sets out the standard for Wikitravel. It says fair use is not appropriate for Wikitravel. Because Wikitravel uses a different copyright licence what may be acceptable for Wikipedia may not be suitable for Wikitravel. -- Huttite 21:02, 29 Dec 2005 (EST)
- Having looked at the Fair Use section, (Section 107), it state that Fair Use is permitted for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching ... , scholarship, or research. Travel is not on the list. While Wikipedia may be considered a work of scholarship or research, because of the standards they set about researching articles, it is highly unlikely that Wikitravel could claim the same thing. It is difficult to see what of the above Fair Use criteria articles written for Wikitravel would even fall under - even news reporting is a bit too much of a stretch. It seems to me that the Fair Use provision exists to allow somebody to comment or respond to what somebody else has said, either to contrast or support an agument or as evidence in an opinion piece. This is not the main intent of Wikitravel. Consequently, I cannot see how the provisions of Fair Use would apply to Wikitravel content - it might to talk pages and how I used it here is a classic example of Fair Use; including criticism, comment, and teaching. Unless you use copyrighted works in a similar way it is not Fair Use. -- Huttite 05:00, 31 Dec 2005 (EST)
[edit] Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
US Title 17, section 102
The Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, section 102, says:
- ..(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
