Newsgroup: it.cultura.cattolica
Titolo: Copyright e Libreria vaticana: chiarimento definitivo

    Pare che il libro "incriminato" per cui sono stati chiesti i 15.000 euro
sia "il dizionario di papa Ratzinger" di Marco Tosatti, l'autore
dell'articolo
de La Stampa che ha iniziato questa "polemica".
    In seguito si sono aggiunti Messori e altri giornalisti/vaticanisti
nonché editori, e la polemica si è accesa anche online, fomentata anche da
agenzie non particolarmente allineate col vaticano e - non da ultimo - anche
dai radicali (ovvio) di cui si fornisce una sintesi qui:
http://www.korazym.org/news1.asp?Id=16053
    La presa di posizione della LEV è pubblicata in questo comunicato
stampa:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/lev/docs_lev/news.h
tm
    Pare che il copyright inteso dalla LAV si applichi soltanto alle cose
pubblicate per guadagnarsi, e non quando le parole del Papa sono riportate
nei giornali o nelle riviste.
    Sintesi chiarificatrice dal Catholic News Service:
Vatican says it will protect pope's writings, enforce copyright
www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0600390.htm
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican publishing house has made it clear it will
protect the writings of Pope Benedict XVI and the copyright it owns over
every speech, homily and document he writes.
A storm erupted in Italy in late January after the Libreria Editrice
Vaticana, the Vatican Publishing House, sent a bill for more than $18,000
seeking royalties and legal costs to a Milan-based publisher.
Italian authors and publishers began talking about new, secret rules that
would make it difficult, if not impossible, to spread the pope's message.
The Vatican Publishing House said the rules are not new or secret, but they
are necessary to prevent pirated copies of papal documents -- texts sold
under the pope's name but with no Vatican control over the content and no
compensation to the Vatican.
An Italian newspaper said the Milan publisher billed by the Vatican had
quoted "about 30 lines" from speeches Pope Benedict made immediately before
and after his April 19 election.
But in a Jan. 23 statement the Vatican publisher said the introduction to
the 124-page book explicitly told readers, "Everything you will find here,
after the introduction, comes from the pen or the voice of Joseph
Ratzinger," now Pope Benedict.
The book was being sold for about $12 a copy, and it was published without
the knowledge or consent of the Vatican, the Vatican said.
Francesca Angeletti, who handles copyright permissions for the Vatican, told
Catholic News Service the Vatican wanted to ensure the integrity of texts
attributed to the pope and to prevent publishers from making money off his
works without the knowledge of the Vatican and without giving the Vatican
appropriate compensation.
Newspapers, magazines and bishops' conferences, she said, still may publish
papal texts without paying royalties as long as the texts are not changed
and a line is included saying the text has been copyrighted by the Libreria
Editrice Vaticana.
Publishers who produce books or tracts reprinting papal texts will be asked
to pay between 3 percent and 5 percent of the cover price to the Vatican.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, issued two statements
May 31 referring to works written by the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
and all the written texts of Pope Benedict.
The cardinal's statements were "analogous" to those issued in 1978 by
then-secretary of state Cardinal Jean Villot covering the writings of Pope
John Paul II before and after his election, the Vatican said.
In addition, a memo written by Salesian Father Claudio Rossini, director of
the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, outlining how the copyrights would be
handled was distributed to publishers at the Frankfurt (Germany) Book Fair
in October and sent to all Italian publishers, the Vatican said.

de La Stampa che ha iniziato questa "polemica"
Qui verrebbe da dire :Tosatti  "cà nisciuno è fesso"