Alex R. wrote:
As far as history pages are concerned my current thinking on copyright infringements appearing on these pages is to invoke sec. 108 of the Copyright Act. Thus while a current page version is released under the GFDL, prior versions of an article should have the famous 108 notice so that if some one has downloaded copyright infringing material at least Wikimedia will not be responsible as it is acting as a non-commercial archive (this cannot apply to the current version of any page as it would be in violation of the GFDL).
Can you explain more about the "famous 108 notice"?
I read this article, but found it only partially helpful: http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/notice.html
And this: http://www.mlc.lib.mi.us/services/copyill.php
And finally, a marked-up copy of the law itself: http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/mts/eg13a.htm
--Jimbo