This is a complicated issue.
In general items for which LingQ is the provider where created by someone at LingQ, or were paid for directly by LingQ. You can use them as you wish.
By the way, “Who is she”, “eating out” and “Greetings and goodbyes” were created (if that is the word) by me. I am sure our members can do better.
You are welcome to use these, translate them and put them up without attribution and claim the points. Please stay as close to the original as possible while still making it read and sound natural. It should be close enough so that a beginner can get the meaning for the new language she is learning, yet it should be natural for the learner of that language. Please change any personal names to good Dutch sounding ones like Cees and Marike (Brel).
You and anyone else is free to use anything on my blog however you wish.
If you create content in Dutch (a language that is a mystery to most non-Netherlanders) and then translate them into other languages, that would be great. Others can then edit them to make them natural in their own language. If we can have a lot of beginner and lower intermediate content in a variety of languages, that is original and interesting, that will be helpful to our beginners.
The issue of sharing the revenue is a difficult one. We simply have to stay focused on things to make the learners’ experience at LingQ better, improve the Community features, and will bring us more members. Internal issues have to wait. Ensuring that points are equally distributed between contributors of content, when one member created it and another translated it, seems to me to a lower priority item right now. I would prefer to leave the points with the last person who uploaded the content, i.e. the translator, for now, while acknowledging the originator.
Bear in mind that we are a small group, a new tribe, albeit with members from all over the world. Our first goal is to see our tribe grow in size and influence. First we have to conquer more space. Then when we have a a bigger area under cultivation so to speak, (more members), the question of the sharing of points for jointly produced content will be more important. There will be more revenue to share.
Once the content is in the store it continues to earn points as long as it is there. I think for now it is enough to note when there is jointly produced content. When we implement a way to share points we can decide if we want to go back and change the status of these items.
Mark may have other ideas, or maybe some of our members do, but we do not want to spend programmer time on this now. I would rather add new languages like Dutch for example, or do other things that will improve the learner experience or increase the membership of our tribe.
When we are big and strong we can then sit back and divide up the spoils.
