Talk:Encyclopædia Britannica

1911 Britannica vs Government-published glossaries
If this is referring to public domain Government-published glossaries, that's free content. Conservapedia (along with everybody else) has permission to use those glossaries in their own work like that. 1911 Britannica is (public domain) free content too, but that's only because its copyright expired. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. never (of it's own free will) made 1911 Britannica free content, or gave Wikipedia permission to use 1911 Britannica like that. You can certainly make the argument that what Wikipedia did is morally wrong (tough legally a-OK).

That argument wouldn't apply to the Conservapedia and the Government-published glossaries tough: the government of it's own free will made it's glossaries free content, so unless I'm missing something here it's a-OK for Conservapedia to use them. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 05:54, April 29, 2014 (UTC)