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David Gerard wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html

Lessig calls this "huge":

http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html

So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot.

• d.

I believe Wikinews already has this story.

- -- Cary

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:46 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html

Lessig calls this "huge":

http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html

So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot.

By the way, somewhere along the opinion, there is a sentence like "The Wikimedia Foundation, which was also an amicus curiae, said....".

Mike, would it be possible for you to release the WMF's amicus curiae brief to the public? I would be quite interested in this.

Michael

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:46 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html

I like the part where according to the article, Wikipedia uses the Creative Commons license. Go John Markoff for making license compatibility a reality :P

Lessig calls this "huge":

http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html

Also, huzzah!

-- phoebe