On 5/8/07, Michael Billington michael.billington@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/9/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/8/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/9/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
b) we'll be able to sue anybody stealing passwords for violating the DMCA. It's just crazy enough to work, I tell you.
No because the passwords will not be part of a DRM system.
If they're an admin, then the password protects access to a copyrighted work, namely, the deleted articles.
They're deleted, but the editors still released their contributions under the GFDL.
Doesn't matter if they're released under the GFDL, they're still copyrighted, so they're still covered by the DMCA (at least until the GFDL specifically waives the power to forbid circumvention, like the GPLv3 is supposed to do).
We could hardly sue them for copying deleted copyvio though. I mean, we don't even have the rights to it. :)
The suit would be for circumventing a system which effectively controls access to a copyrighted work. The copyrighted works would be anything deleted, and anyone who has written such a work could initiate the suit. So, depends on who the "we" is. I've had articles deleted before. Don't know about you.
Anthony