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