--- Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
That is where the Wikimedia Foundation may be in some trouble with Wikipedia content as there are several places where the Wikimedia Foundation disclaims any copyright to content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The Foundation really can't enforce a provision of the GFDL as a result if they don't have copyright ownership on any of the material.
That should be easy to fix. AFAIK, all we would need is to have a large group of users who have contributed a good deal of content to agree to allow the foundation to act on their behalf in cases that involve GFDL enforcement (the exact wording is in the never-enacted user agreement legalese). In short, the foundation would be a copyright enforcement agent for copyright owners who agree to allow that. I for one would allow this for my 40,000 or so edits and scores of pages of text Ive contributed.
Besides, this would only be an issue for the rarest of cases that would require legal action. Softer tactics should be the rule anyway.
-- mav
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