User talk:Morningstar2651
Hi Morningstar,
I just spoke against deleting some articles you proposed for deletion at Project:Candidates for deletion. I just wanted to tell you that this is not against you as a person. On the contrary. I started contributing here recently, after watching for a long time, and i'm very glad that someone else is working on articles too. It is also nice that you care enough to do housekeeping work, such as proposing articles for deletion. Writing articles is much more fun if you can discuss them with others. Nice to meet you! Eusebia 14:32, 16 Jul 2005 (BST)
Copyright material.
You've cut-and-pasted the text from A.E.Waite. I think it goes a little beyond fair use, but it might be out of copyright. As far as I can tell it's OK, but can you please double check. I think that it's authors death + 75 years now (stupid fucking law) but waite died in 1942, which implies it's probably ***not*** ok. - Elseware
From http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/faq.htm#uscopyright
- The Rider-Waite-Smith cards and the Pictorial Key to the Tarot are in the public domain in the United States, any other statements notwithstanding.
- In the EU & UK - Since Smith died in 1951, the Rider-Waite-Smith deck would not be public domain in the EU and UK until 2021 if she was acknowledged as the author of the work. However, apparently she did this as a 'work for hire', which means that they will be in the public domain in 2012, the 70th year after Waite's death. Since Waite died in 1942, the Pictorial Key to the Tarot won't be in the public domain in the EU and UK until 2012.
- If you use the black and white images, scanned from the PKT, or the color images of the 1910 Pamela-A deck, at a website physically located in the United States, and your website is non-commercial in nature, you probably won't have any problems.
Depending on where the computer where the information is stored is located, the text of Waite's book may or may not be in the public domain. I believe that the info may be hosted by a company in Huntington Park, CA - within the US, which may make the text within the public domain.
I work at a library during the day, so I'll take a look into international copyright laws after I clock out. Morningstar2651 19:53, 18 Jul 2005 (BST)