On 6/21/05, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/21/05, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
CoolCat made the important claim of being the copyright owner, yet refused to supply critical pieces of data to support that claim.
So what do you expect someone to provide to substantiate a claim of original authorship? A copyright regiserted with the copyright office? ... right.
From a quick reading of the article's talk page, CoolCat would not
provide anything except the assertion of authorship, claiming a desire for anonymity precluded anything else. The pointing out that associating yourself with being the author of another site's article could ruin that anonymity anyway didn't produce any results.
The largest reason, I think, why CoolCat's assertion did not help was that this user has been found to have violated copyright before. "Assume good faith until burned", I guess.
-Matt