Jean-Baptiste Soufron, Doctorant CERSA - CNRS, Paris 2 http://soufron.free.fr
Le 20 mars 05, à 21:47, Andre Engels a écrit :
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:25:43 -0500, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
So we have two choices, wait for injunction or the criminal charges (copyright violation is now a criminal matter :( ) and make the argument in court, arguing fine points that have never been tested before (how many generations of changes and replacements are needed to untaint derived text, is any number sufficient), in a court which is likely unfavorable due to the political climate, and potential lose years of contributions if we lose the battle. Basically taking a huge bet that wikipedia will be large enough to generate a large enough public out-cry on the matter to influence the political situation...
Come on!!!! That's not a "huge bet", that's being ridiculous on the face of it. Basically, if I write something and add it to another text, does that make my text a copyright violation. NO. There's no issue about 1, 10 or 100 changes, there's an issue about DIFFERENT TEXTS!!!!!
That's the good way to see things. Each addition is an original work in itself. Their combination is also another original work. If you have an article = A+B, then you got 3 works... 2 normal and 1 derivative.