In a message dated 4/25/2011 9:34:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jrgoma@gmail.com writes:
My interest in a legal opinion is not to know if what they do is legal or not.
My interest is to know for example what can they do if I copy the content they previously have translated from an English Wikipedia article I have previously written.
How do they put a dollar figure on the damages suffered if the income they get from that content is obtained from my work they have translated without my permission?
They only have my permission to publish derived works under same license. Then I have the right to copy the derived works back. So any damage they could claim is exactly the same damage I suffer for not being able to do those copies. >>
I don't believe you could make the case that individual contributors have any standing to sue for copyright violations. Similarly, when you contribute to the project, you are intrinsically giving up any rights you may think you possess in what you have written. "Your permission" is a non-existent entity in the case of what you give to Wikipedia.
Will Johnson