Arvind,
Thank you for taking the time to write such a courteous letter to the Chess & Beyond website. As predicted, the response was courteous and promised cooperation within quite a reasonable amount of time.
This sort of courteous exchange is an excellent example of promoting the "free text" concept -- and it's much better than an abrupt takedown demand. We're not WWF wrestlers, we're public-spirited artists.
Ed Poor
From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com
Arvind,
Thank you for taking the time to write such a courteous letter to the Chess & Beyond website. As predicted, the response was courteous and promised cooperation within quite a reasonable amount of time.
This sort of courteous exchange is an excellent example of promoting the "free text" concept -- and it's much better than an abrupt takedown demand. We're not WWF wrestlers, we're public-spirited artists.
If public spirited artists do not protect their rights, they loose them like anyone else. I still think there needs to be a policy that deals with such misuse of the content of Wikipedia, otherwise let's just take down that GFDL license and let it just be a PD free-for-all, then it will really be like the WWF; rational people make rational demands, the OCILLA notice is a rational demand as authorized by law, it is not some wild act by a bunch of guys on steroids. Sure being nice is good, but if someone ignores it, it should not be tolerated this is what it means to live in a free and democratic society, people follow the laws. If they want to change them, then they can try to do that, but don't compare the law to a bunch of thugs, that is not nice (and not in the spirit of public-spirited artists).
Once again this is a legal issue and all posts should at least be cross posted to Wikilegal-L which is open to anyone to join who is interested in such legal issues.
Alex756
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Arvind,
Thank you for taking the time to write such a courteous letter to the Chess & Beyond website. As predicted, the response was courteous and promised cooperation within quite a reasonable amount of time.
Yes, I suspect most people will be accomodating when the situation is politely explained to them, and they're given enough time to respond.
This sort of courteous exchange is an excellent example of promoting the "free text" concept -- and it's much better than an abrupt takedown demand. We're not WWF wrestlers, we're public-spirited artists.
As an indicator of how problematic some of the copyright issues can be, the wrestlers are not allowed to call themselves WWF anymore. :-)
Ec