User talk:Chemazzo

Welcome!
Hi, Chemazzo. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Herostratus (talk) 01:42, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Re Great American Songbook
I think that User:Softlavender is wrong about Letras sin fronteras on the merits; that is, I think it's probably a useful addition, particularly since it offers the English lyrics side by side with the translations (something that User:Softlavender may not have realized). It's an interesting site. I have a couple quibbles with it (not super crazy about the format, and some of the songs are not Great American Songbook songs), but that's not important.

But what is important is this: it's kind of sketchy re copyright. Some of those songs are surely under copyright, and per WP:ELNEVER: "Material that violates the copyrights of others... should not be linked. Linking to websites that display copyrighted works is acceptable as long as the website has licensed the work, or uses the work in a way compliant with fair use [emphasis added -- ed]]. Knowingly directing others to material that violates copyright may be considered contributory copyright infringement. If there is reason to believe that a website has a copy of a work in violation of its copyright, do not link to it. Linking to a page that illegally distributes someone else's work casts a bad light on Wikipedia and its editors."|undefined

I don't see any indication that that website has permission from the publishers to publish these lyrics (and I doubt they do), and it's not fair use -- they're not presented in some context of examining the lyrics, but rather just presented raw. It's for this reason, and not User:Softlavender's objection to Spanish, that I think you ought to let this one go.

No problem. This is tricky subject! It's hard to know all this! You're doing fine, and thank for you for your contribution and enthusiasm. Looking forward to your future contributions, Herostratus (talk) 01:55, 11 October 2014 (UTC)