2009/10/20 Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org:
What is, actually, conspicuously absent from the discussion is whether anyone has a *right* to make a profit on these creative works. Copyright is a social contract; society grants a work's creator(s) a limited duration monopoly to allow them the *opportunity* to make a profit.
Outside wikimedia's remit. Wikimedia is interested in maintaining the right not to make money of your work and any further erosion of the public domain.