From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com
Arvind,
Thank you for taking the time to write such a courteous letter to the Chess & Beyond website. As predicted, the response was courteous and promised cooperation within quite a reasonable amount of time.
This sort of courteous exchange is an excellent example of promoting the "free text" concept -- and it's much better than an abrupt takedown demand. We're not WWF wrestlers, we're public-spirited artists.
If public spirited artists do not protect their rights, they loose them like anyone else. I still think there needs to be a policy that deals with such misuse of the content of Wikipedia, otherwise let's just take down that GFDL license and let it just be a PD free-for-all, then it will really be like the WWF; rational people make rational demands, the OCILLA notice is a rational demand as authorized by law, it is not some wild act by a bunch of guys on steroids. Sure being nice is good, but if someone ignores it, it should not be tolerated this is what it means to live in a free and democratic society, people follow the laws. If they want to change them, then they can try to do that, but don't compare the law to a bunch of thugs, that is not nice (and not in the spirit of public-spirited artists).
Once again this is a legal issue and all posts should at least be cross posted to Wikilegal-L which is open to anyone to join who is interested in such legal issues.
Alex756