Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Religious Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington
韓光
宗教系博士候選人
美國印第安那大學
Proposed initial editing assignments
Draft Editor Invitation
Dear X,
As the Database of Modern Chinese Buddhism continues to develop, Greg and I feel that in order to maintain a high standard of content, it would beneficial if we could recruit scholars from the community to participate in maintaining certain parts of the site.
After much consideration we think that the best way to do this would be to have named editors for each page, as well as for the different sections of the database (biographical, institutional, etc.). Editors would not be responsible for adding content, though they are more than welcome to do so. Rather, their primary responsibility would be to make sure that the form and content of the pages they edit meets the high expectations for quality, readability, and rigor that are set forth both in the DMCB and the scholarly community as a whole. In the vast majority of cases, this would mean only the occasional edit of new content.
We have written to you because we know that your research touches on X, and we would like to invite you to consider becoming an editor for that page, as well as any other pages about which you feel you have competence and/or interest. Once you become an editor, we recommend that you "Watch" the pages you edit, so that you will be notified by e-mail when changes are made to that page.
Editorship of a page does not mean that you hold any type of copyright for the content of that page; all content on the DMCB will remain available to everyone under a Creative Commons license. We do, however, feel that your stewardship of one or more pages on the DMCB should be considered an academic activity, and we encourage you to list it on your C.V.
Sincerely,
Erik J. Hammerstrom, Co-editor Ph.D. Candidate Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Gregory Adam Scott, Co-editor Ph.D. Candidate Department of Religion, Columbia University
Notes on copyright law:
In USA:
For single author works:
Table of Dates Works Pass into public domain in the U.S.
In PRC:
Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China (2001): Section 3 Term of Protection for Rights: Article 21: The term of protection for the right of publication and the rights referred to in Article l0, paragraphs (5) to (17), of this Law in respect of a work of a citizen shall be the lifetime of the author and fifty years after his death, and expires on 31 December of the fiftieth year after the death of the author. In the case of a work of joint authorship, such term shall expire on 31 December of the fiftieth year after the death of the last surviving author.
On photographs in PRC and ROC:
According to copyright laws of the People's Republic of China (with legal jurisdiction in the mainland only, excluding Hong Kong and Macao) and the Republic of China (currently with jurisdiction in Taiwan, the Pescadores, Quemoy, Matsu, etc.), all photographs enter the public domain fifty years after they were first published, and all non-photographic works enter the public domain fifty years after the death of the creator.
