User talk:Leibowitz.lawyer

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Again, welcome! John Vandenberg (chat) 07:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Israeli copyright
Sorry I didnt reply sooner. I created a "redirect" from Israeli Supreme Court Decision - House Demolitions to Israeli Supreme Court decision on Aqaba demolition, so there is no need to delete the old name.

Your project sounds very interesting. These cases are originally written in Hebrew? If so, it would be beneficial if you could first put the original Hebrew documents onto our Hebrew Wikisource project, and then place the English translation onto the English project. This is not a requirement, as we do accept English translations when the original text hasnt been put onto the appropriate sub-domain, however it is advisable, because proof readers will need to access the original in order to verify that it is a good translation.

Before you go too much further, we need to work out the legal basis for hosting these documents on Wikisource. For example, here are a few "templates" that we use:

PD-USGov
 * USA:

PD-INGov
 * India:

PD-CAGov
 * Canada:

We need to create an equivalent template for Israeli law; can you dig around and find the appropriate Israeli law that essentially puts judicial opinions into the public domain? One way to tackle this to digitise the appropriate acts, translating them if you have to; we have the full text of the copyright act for many countries; see Copyright law.

p.s. you can ignore the scary notices at the bottom of Israeli Supreme Court decision on Aqaba demolition - we wont delete the page without giving you plenty of time to understand and correct any issues. The first one to understand is that we need to know the applicable law.

John Vandenberg (chat) 18:50, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

PD-ILGov has been created and placed on Israeli Supreme Court decision on Aqaba demolition. John Vandenberg (chat) 23:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Feel free to edit "PD-ILGov"; if you make a mistake, only one page is affected - so there is no problem. John Vandenberg (chat) 04:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Translation license
There is still one more aspect of copyright which we need to address. As you are the initial translator, you can pick which license you want your translation to be. The available choices are GFDL (this is the implicit choice), a Creative Commons license, such as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA, or if you are not interested in limiting distribution or attribution you can select PD-release. Note that in the case of PD-release, you will still be attributed on Wikisource; the release into the public domain however does give other sites the freedom to remove the attribution. You do not need to choose a license immediately; if you like, you can choose GFDL for the moment (it is implicit anyway), and then choose a different license later on. However, if you wait too long, others may alter your translation, in which case they must also agree to relicense their contribution to the work. John Vandenberg (chat) 23:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

indexing
You wrote I think we should create Israeli Supreme Court as an author, and then somehow create directories - criminal law, human rights, civil law, adminstrative law, etc.

The "Author:" prefix is typically reserved for the actual authors, but we do have some "Non-author" author pages.

The "Wikisource:" prefix is being used to place pages which are an index to our collection. The index starts at Works.

Typically what we do is create an index like Portal:Supreme Court of the United States and Portal:Supreme Court of South Korea, and add a convenience link at "Portal:Supreme Court of the United States". (see here)

Another approach is the index works based on topic, such as Portal:Copyright law, or by country rather than by court, such as Portal:American case law. Portal:United States copyright case law is one of the most specific indexes we have.

To begin with, I think you should create Portal:Israeli Supreme Court or Portal:Supreme Court of Israel (whichever is the common way to refer to the court in English; on Wikipedia, it is called Supreme Court of Israel). John Vandenberg (chat) 23:53, 7 May 2008 (UTC)