[Foundation-l] Ownership of articles from Wikipedia

[John at Darkstar]

My gross guess is that the lawyer don't have a clue about the licenses
and just make a wild guess. I've put up a note on the sites involved,
and I am going to try to figure out what the lawyer really tries to say
tomorrow.

In very general terms; I guess he tries to say that I can't claim
payment because I've given away the codework to this company. But at the
same time he says the company has all rights to the content, which I
seriously doubt they has.

If they stick to their claim I'll try to write up a note to Mike Godwin.

John

Gerard Meijssen skrev:
> Hoi,
> Given that we have no clue what this lawyer has said.. given that we have no
> clue what was asked of him, I am sure that there is not enough basis to
> comment. It seems obvious from what you say that there is a lawyer that
> claims something. It is equally obvious that there is a reply to such
> claims. I do hope that you have asked Mike Godwin his opinion and given him
> more information. You (may) know that we always claim that the authors are
> the copyright holders so in the end they are the ones that have to make
> waves.
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
> 
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:12 PM, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:
> 
>> I just got a reply from a lawyer about wp-content and other work on a
>> site, it is the "other" part that sparked the discussion (boring stuff
>> about somone that does not want to pay for some work), and they claim
>> that "all rights lies at (company), which is responsible for the site
>> and the continued operation of this (site)".
>>
>> My question is, given that the content on this site comes from
>> Wikipedia, and is licensed gfdl, how can they claim that they have all
>> rights? Is this a violation of the license? I think it is if they try to
>> claim that they have ownership of the articles.
>>
>> John
>>
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