Andrew Cleveland wrote:
User:Anthony DiPierro claims on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements that Wikipedia is violating his copyright by not releasing the entirety of an article he modified under GFDL (Al Gore) including images, some of which may have been used under fair use. The images were included after his modifications. He claims the entire article, including images, must be released under GFDL to avoid breaking the license. I'm not a lawyer, I'm just confused (heh) and worried that this may become a problem.. probably just me being weird.
This seems reasonable, and could be problematic. If I release an article under the GFDL, and you republish it with additions, you have to let me (and everyone else) use the additions under the GFDL. So it would be against the GFDL for a commercial company to take our articles, add proprietary images to them, and publish, not allowing us to copy their derived work because of the copyright images. I think the Wikipedia case is probably similar, except it's us that's doing it. (But IANAL).
-Mark