On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 13:08, Harry Burt wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Charles Matthews

> <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com (mailto:charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com)> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_contact_role_accounts
> > does say it is a copyright matter; but the page linked to doesn't seem
> > to spell that out. Perhaps it should.
> >
> > Charles
>
> As I understand it, there used to be a general concern that the only
> way the GFDL could be held to be compatible with pseudonymity was if
> there was a 1-to-1 mapping between pseudonyms and human beings.
>
> I'm not sure that was ever actually looked into, since it seems to me
> that many-to-many would be just as good, as long as you realised and
> confirmed you were asking to be attributed with a vague identifier
> (like 99% of humanity does when it picks a name someone else already
> has or had).

Given trademark law, I'd say a corporate name like "Disney Inc." is significantly more rigid than a personal name like "John Smith". People don't tend to sue you if you call yourself John Smith quite so much as they do over using the names of multinational conglomerates...

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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>

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