William638Loew303

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 03:10, 9 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Permissions required for File:Civil Rights Movement EL Text.pdf edit

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Hi. The file that has been uploaded to File:Civil Rights Movement EL Text.pdf says that it is in the public domain, however, the site requires more than a statement to that effect. As I am sure that you would understand such a statement would have no legal binding. We require fo you to step through the process at c:Commons:OTRS with regard to this work at English Wikisource. If you have any questions then please address them to WS:CV. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:33, 23 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Billlinghurst, Thanks for the question. I will send the author's statement of intent to the permissions e-mail. The author is in his late 90's, quite poor health, and has stopped using e-mail. I will try to visit him to see if we can get the form completed as per wikimedia requirements. fyi below is the statement the author (John Duley) sent to me in 2014. However it is possible that we may not get the form completed and one of the copyright volunteers will have to make a judgement decision on keeping or deleting.

e-mail from John Duley to Willl Loew-Blosser 10/9/2014

"Will: Thanks so much for following up on this. The answer to your two questions at the end of your email is yes-- I would be pleased to have it widely circulated so do not intend to copyright it and would be willing to have it published as you suggest. John"

e-mail to John Duley from Will Loew-Blosser 10/4/2014

"Hi John,

Leslie and I have were very pleased to learn so much of East Lansing history from your monograph. As we mentioned at breakfast I’m looking into putting your monograph entitled "The Civil Rights Movement in East Lansing and Edgewood Village” onto wikipedia. There is a section of wikipedia called wikiSource that holds original works that may be then used in the encyclopedia articles as a source material.

See https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

The first question is about copyright. WikiSource does not accept copyrighted works. You do not have a copyright notice on the title page but there is no explicit permission to reproduce or republish either.

Did you intend that the monograph should be published without a copyright? Do you give permission for it to be reproduced and put onto WikiSource?

Thanks Will Loew-Blosser William638Loew303 (talk) 12:05, 23 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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