That's the whole point of free licenses—you're giving up some of your rights to your work. This doesn't have anything to do with European vs. American copyright law.
I checked the wording in the existing terms of service and it's exactly the same.
Ryan Kaldari
On 12/12/11 12:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ryan Kaldarirkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Would you care to explain anything you're talking about?
I don't see anything in the Licensing section that mentions anything about U.S. copyright law. It says the content is licensed under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA, and the Attribution section just reflects the standard practices for those licenses. I don't see anything about how we're supposed to belittle and disgrace Europeans, but maybe I missed that part :)
I think what he means is that under most European copyright regimes, an author has far-reaching personality rights, which include the right to have the work accredited to them whenever it is republished. The terms of use, in his feeling, hollow out this right by redefining the obligatory credit part of the GFL and CC-BY-SA in such a way that one can mention all authors by doing something that does not include mentioning any of them.