Decree signed by Cardinal Angelo Sodano that forces to pay royalties because publishing ecclesiastical documents is a serious mistake: the Catholic Church must spread Message of Christ with every means in its hand. Copyright is only necessary to preserve integrity of documents. If Catholics must pay to read it, the Church doesn’t put means, just an obstacle.
Pope documents, and Vatican documents in general belong to Church, so, like every state documents must be opened to every member. Vatican must copyright them under CC or GFDL -like licences.Those documents are current expressions of Message of Christ, so they must stay free.
The new in Clarin (in Spanish) via Barrrapunto.