"...the text contained in Wikipedia is licensed to the public under the GNU
Free Documentation License (GFDL)"
This statement gives us standing as licensor, the defendent is a licensee
under the GFDL.
Fred
From: Delirium <delirium(a)rufus.d2g.com>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:29:54 -0800
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] The Defendent
Fred Bauder wrote:
I think Flexicon is the logical defendent with
Wikipedia as a the plaintiff
should we chose to not accept repeated violations of our copyright, if
contact with them requesting compliance proves unproductive. Ulrich Fuchs is
right to point this out but throwing in the "five author" question is not
productive as we do want people, including commercial sites, to reuse our
material without onerous requirements.
I'm not sure how Wikipedia could be the plaintiff, as it doesn't hold
copyright to the material. The material I've submitted to Wikipedia,
for example, is copyrighted by me. I have licensed it under the GFDL,
so Wikipedia, as well as anyone else willing to abide by the terms of
the GFDL, is free to use my text. But they have no more rights to it
than any other random person or entity does.
-Mark
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