On 3/3/06, SCZenz <sczenz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Claiming copyright on Wikipedia material would be
a violation of GFDL. If
they claim copyright on everything on their site, and they copy our stuff
onto their site, then we can send them a letter they've violated GFDL and
asking them to stop. That's all there is to it.
It's not even just a violation of GFDL, it's just a normal copyright
violation. The copyright to our articles is held by the contributors
of those articles. If they copy them, well, they're breaching our
individual copyrights.
But what happens if someone copies over stuff from wikipedia, or
somebody adds to wikipedia and to there? It looks like it's impossible
to access the history at the Marvel site without registering, but it
might be needed to ascertain potential copyright violations. Users
might dump text from there into wikipedia. We're already fighting a
rearguard battle against some users who think they can simply copy
material from Marvel's published character guides, is there a way to
register an account which wikipedians can use to verify the dates things
were added?
Steve Block
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