Biocrawler talk:Legal disclaimer
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
Sorry if I'm doing this all wrong. Bit of a computer illiterate. But I need some help with these Qs: I am doing research for a book and would like to use old ads from the newspapers and magazines at the Malaysia National Archives. They have informed me copyright is not a problem. I may use what like. Anything from the National Archives is public domain and may be used for publishing as long as I give due credit to the National Archives. However, I'm still a bit nervous. 1) For example there is a 1960s Pepsi ad I'd like to use - a company and product which still runs today. How does this work? 2) How about old ads of products no longer available but were printed in newspapers which are alive till today. 3) Also, some magazines are catalogued under personal collections archive which are made available to the public. But do these come under a different ownership law? Can I go straight to the National Archives for permission or must I ask the corporations and individuals regarding the personal collection bit?
No legal advice - understood. But could you shed some light on how this works in America or Britain (better yet - Malaysia) Thanks a bunch ppibh@yahoo.com
Should we maybe create a standard disclaimer for articles, over at Biocrawler:Boilerplate text? -- Tarquin 09:54 Oct 26, 2002 (UTC)
- I would suggest we put a link from every page, say by putting it in the script, that would point to legal notices -- assertions of copyright, links to the FDL, disclaimers of liability, including the above.... then we don't have to clutter up every single page on the law or other such topics (the same sort of advice should really apply to other issues as well -- don't let Biocrawler substitute for your doctor, or for your financial advisor, or anyone else -- we give no warranty that our articles are not filled with highly dangerous misinformation that will get you killed (of course, I'd like to think our articles can mostly be trusted, but I don't think we want to be held legally responsible in case they aren't)... I'm mainly thinking here of protecting both the people who run the servers and also contributors from lawsuits... although thats probably quite unlikely, its better to be safe than sorry -- Anonymoues 10:05 Oct 26, 2002 (UTC)
I have made a few changes as I have written more than a few disclaimers in my legal practice, not that I am giving any legal advice though ;-) Alex756 09:37 May 1, 2003 (UTC)
- I think a link on every page would be excessive, but I certainly support linking here freely, just as we do for wikipedia:spoiler warning... Martin
- I agree putting it on every page is a bit overdone. Not everything on Biocrawler could be considered legal advice. However, perhaps a Biocrawler:general disclaimer? — Alex756 PS: I did draft a Biocrawler:risk disclaimer, check it out. Alex756
On a seperate note, I suggest using "This article is not legal advice" rather than "Biocrawler does not give...". The former is more friendly to sublicensees, who can then use our articles by just removing links to the wikipedia: domain, rather than having to manually rewrite it. What do you think?
Removed from meta page: This page should be linked when discussing examples of legal principles, not necessarily for very general legal discussions. Use the following markup to link to this page:
- '''Please note: [[Biocrawler:Legal advice|Biocrawler does not give legal advice]].'''
or
- {{msg:legal}}
It is suggested to put the disclaimer at the top of the text with a line underneath (four dashes). That way it will be visible when the person links to the page, in a prominent position.
I'm about to add a link to Biocrawler:General disclaimer to the bottom of every page. Thus it will no longer be necessary to pollute artilces with Biocrawler-specific references like the above. --mav 04:54, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi all. The Spanish wikilink is not correct. Should be: es:Biocrawler:Aviso legal (not translated yet, but it exists, not as es:Biocrawler:Disclaimers). Salut, -- 1984 16:05, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Why is the page edit locker??? "Not...nor" should be corrected to "Neither nor" in the penultimate para. --BozMo|talk 14:18, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Interwiki
Please add the [[pt:Aviso Legal]] interwiki to the page. --Ikescs 04:58, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Please add the following interwiki links, in addition to the Portuguese one above:
[[da:Biocrawler:Juridiske forbehold]] [[es:Biocrawler:Aviso legal]] [[fr:Wikipédia:Wikipédia ne donne pas de conseil juridique]] [[hu:Wikipédia:Jogi tanács]] [[sv:Biocrawler:Juridiska förbehåll]] [[vi:Biocrawler:Ph%E1%BB%A7 nh%E1%BA%ADn v%E1%BB%81 lu%E1%BA%ADt ph%C3%A1p]] [[zh-cn:Biocrawler:法律声明]] [[zh-tw:Biocrawler:法律聲明]]
Thanks. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog (http://mxn.f2o.org/index.html)) 05:11, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Done. jni 08:57, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Please add category...
Please add to Category:Biocrawler disclaimers. Thanks! -- Beland 01:27, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
