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...