On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I was under the impression that the WMF does hold a copyright over the entirety of a particular Wikipedia as they offer that collection for download. And re-users often use these dumps as seeds for their "illegal" re-use.
The WMF doesn't hold a copyright over the dumps, they merely distribute it (in violation of copyright law, I might add).