Talk:A Room of One's Own

message: Hi,
I'd like to work in a sentence clarifying the relationship between Woolf's Judith Shakespare, Shakespeare's sister, and the real Judith Quiney, Shakespeare's daughter; but I'm not sufficiently familiar with this work or the relevant sources for it. Could someone who is more familiar with the material have a look and see if a sentence on this could be inserted somewhere (probably around A Room of One's Own#Judith Shakespeare somewhere). TIA, --Xover (talk) 14:38, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judith Shakespeare vs Judith Quiney 

message: 自己的房間 is a LGBT bookstore in Taichung, Taiwan also named after the book. Jidanni (talk) 03:08, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional cultural references 

message: Hi 
, to continue our discussion, what do you think we should do for the best? It seems absurd to remove the links (from the infobox, the citation, and the four in external links, including an audiobook), given how widely available this is as a free text (in the UK, Canada and Australia, for example). It's available on Amazon, including Amazon.com, at no cost. On the other hand, it seems you are right that it's still under copyright in the US; see the Hirtle chart. On the third hand, this is because her husband renewed the copyright after her death.
I wonder who the current copyright holder is. SarahSV (talk) 02:17, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The Society of Authors manages the Woolfs' estates. I agree that it is absurd, but I think the absurdity lies in international copyright law and in Wikipedia's copyright policy. As best I can tell the work is still in copyright in the US and thus can't be uploaded as a file to Commons; can't be transcribed at Wikisource; and can't be linked to from enwp. As I understand it, the Wikimedia Legal position is that this creates liability for contributory copyright infringement (which accords well enough with my understanding of a few really really stupid precedents over the last two decades). In other words, I can't find any alternative but to remove the links. Sorry.That being said, I don't think anyone will have trouble finding an online copy just because we don't link directly to it. And it's even possible we can find sufficient sources discussing the copyright situation for A Room of One's Own directly that we could have a short section in the article explaining it. Anyone reading the article on Wikipedia will twig to the fact that they can just Google for a copy without us having to say so explicitly (which would again fall afoul of our copyright policy). See  and  as possible sources for this. --Xover (talk) 09:05, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , good idea about creating a section discussing the copyright. That will alert people to check it out on Google, although the pagination differs between editions. I assume that the copyright holder isn't pursuing the issue, because Amazon.com (based in Seattle) is giving it away. As for who the copyright holder is, this says: "When Leonard passed away on August 14 in 1969, he left Trekkie his entire estate, including his manuscripts and publishing rights. She later transferred these publishing rights, his papers and Monk’s House, to the University of Sussex." See Trekkie Parsons. More here: "Meanwhile, Chatto & Windus, of which Parsons was a director, had in 1946 absorbed the Hogarth Press of which Woolf retained editorial control. She inherited Monk's House and Woolf's papers and was his executrix." SarahSV (talk) 22:51, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah, that's useful. Then the current copyright holder is most likely the University of Sussex and they have a deal with The Society of Authors to handle the practical stuff surrounding licensing. That might also explain why they're so lax about enforcing the copyright: it's public domain in the UK, and British universities aren't usually very eager to be engaged in that sort of rights management in my experience. --Xover (talk) 14:56, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: Maybe it would be good to add the different editions or at least some of them like in articles to other books in general?--2003:EA:5F49:6991:DC37:87B1:E98:5A59 (talk) 11:25, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editions? 

message: The title is also referenced by the fanfiction website "Archive of Our Own" 18vivekp (talk) 17:37, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book title reference