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Japanese/Reader
Hi! I noticed your work on Japanese/Reader/第七夜. Thank you for uploading the text, but could you please add where you got the text from as there might be issues with copyright. Also, there are readings for some of the kanji which may have been added through some meta-information which might make it easier for us to place the readings in the furi template that is used on some pages. Please consider adding it as well, if you have access to it (e.g. copying the markup from the page source). --Swift (talk) 13:43, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The page in question is part of series of short stories by Natsume Sōseki called, "Ten Nights of Dreams." Japanese copyright laws protect rights up to 50 years after the death of the individual who authored the material.  I believe there's new talks to increase this to 70 years, but Natsume  passed away in 1916.   Since no translation has been copied, I don't think there's any copyright infringement.  --Retropunk (talk) 22:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * What if this is copied from a recent publication? I claim no expertise, but was under the impression that publishers hold certain rights that restrict reproduction, even though the content is in the public domain. --Swift (talk) 01:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The recent publication would most likely be a derivative work, which is then not material authored by Natsume. The publisher of the derivative can not restrict the republication of the original.  ... well, unless they're the author of both.  After some searching, a good question would probably be - "Does anyone else have economic rights for this work?"  and "Is this the original Natsume work?" CRIC states that "...economic rights can be transferred by sale, assignment, succession, etc. partly or totally. "  This includes "right of reproduction - The right to control the act of making copies of a work..."  and rights to create permissions to derivatives.  This is from CRIC. If there aren't any reserved economic rights, our derivative work of the original Natsume would be fine.  -- Retropunk (talk) 09:40, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking into this, Retropunk. I guess as long as we don't photocopy recent published versions, we're in the clear. In the meantime, given the trouble I've had locating electronic versions of the story, and the reading annotation, I think I've tracked down the source. --Swift (talk) 10:27, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually; the originally uploaded text may have come from somewhere else... --Swift (talk) 10:35, 12 January 2009 (UTC)