User talk:Swampthings

Quoting copyrighted hymns

Do you by chance know the laws on quoting full copyrighted texts of hymns without permission? It seems it might be fine, since people seem to do it all the time, but I'm not sure. I know you need permission for the sheet music itself, though. Veramet 14:15, 12 April 2007 (MDT)

I don't. The way that wikipedia does that is that it has a policy page to make sure to get permission from people for stuff. We could do that, too, and then if people complain then remove their hymn until permission is obtained. You may look in the legal disclaimers of some of the popular song lyric repositories. I think that would have infomration that would be valuables. Please sign your talk posts with four tildes. Swampthings 14:14, 12 April 2007 (MDT)