2009/1/10 geni geniice@gmail.com:
2009/1/10 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
The WMF is not just making and distributing verbatim copies of my works. Not effectively, not even remotely close to it. The only time they're even arguably distributing verbatim copies of my works would be for articles where I am the last author or for historical revisions.
Yes I thought you'd try that argument. The problem with it that every modified version is first distributed by someone other than the foundation. That the foundation then produces a verbatim copy of that rather than a modified version.
I'm not sure about that - the author of the derivative work just sends it to the foundation, the foundation is the first to actually distribute it. I'm not sure how it all works legally and with respect to the license, but I'm not sure it's as simple as you make out. (I know the foundation denies being a publisher for legal reasons, and perhaps they are correct legally speaking, but by the standard meaning of the word (one who makes something public) the foundation are quite clearly the publisher of Wikipedia.)