Wikibooks:Requests for undeletion/A survival guide for people with Asperger syndrome

A survival guide for people with Asperger syndrome

This page was deleted because of a copyright violation of this page. The latter, however, says: Attention! This survival guide is continued as a WikiBook, and you can read and/or contribute it here. Survival guide WikiBook. It then links to A survival guide for people on the autistic spectrum, which was deleted as a copyright violation of the very same page. It seems we have some sort of a deadlock here: it seems the people hosting the book have posted it themself. The author, however, is no longer alive. IANAL, but is this an undeletion candidate? It is certainly suitable for a wiki to have such a book. Gerrit 19:02, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Whoever the rightful copyright holder is will have to give their approval to have it on wikibooks. You say the author has passed away, so perhaps his next of kin now has the rights? We need to be careful, because for all we know it could have been transfered to some other party who has the rights to it now. While it's probably their intentions that as many people read the book as possible if there is no permission given there's nothing we should do about it. MShonle 20:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Since it is a finished book this is Wikisource material. We must sort out the copyright woes before lumping it onto their shoulders however. I would say the next of kin will either have legal rights, or, failing that, will have been at the reading of his will and therefore be able to inform us as to who the copyright owner now is. Garrett^Talk 00:58, 6 September 2005 (UTC)