[WikiEN-l] joint authorship

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Thu Aug 23 17:58:15 UTC 2007


On 8/23/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wasn't thinking of fair use.  I was thinking "work of joint authorship".
>
> Does it being a work of joint authorship help? The GFDL explicitly
> states how modifications work, I think, so I don't think we'll be able
> to use joint authorship to get around it. It would boil down to
> nullifying the license, which is not something we should be trying to
> do.
>
Joint authors, in the absense of a joint authorship agreement, can
grant any non-exclusive license to anyone.



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