--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu> wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
>Can we make copyright assignment compulsory
for
anonymous contributions to
>Wikibooks then?
It's legally impossible. Copyright assignment
requires a real legal
contract, and you can't make those with
anonymous
people, no way.
We want people to sign over all rights of /use/ to
us,
so that we can do whatever we want with it.
Whether we actually own the copyright is irrelevant.
If we just do that, we'd need some way to know their
name in order to cite it, which is impossible. Why not
have it all just be the same as Wikipedia is? That
seems to be working. I don't like ownership of
knowledge, and I'd rather that everything contributed
to wikibooks, anonymous or otherwise, is considered
authored by wikibooks, just like Wikipedia.
Additionally, some textbooks (like my Algebra I
textbook, for one) are partially based on Wikipedia
content, so it would be nearly impossible to say that
all of the non-anonymous contributers in any way own
the content; that would just be too broad.
-LittleDan
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