--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@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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