On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 14:59, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Oliver Pereira wrote:
I have a query about copyright, although not directly related to the Bryce Harrington thing. If an article is in breach of copyright, and someone else replaces the text with original material, the copyrighted material is still publically available on the Wikipedia to anyone who knows about the revision history page. Doesn't this mean that there is still a breach of copyright here? And if so, doesn't the entire article (along with its history) have to be deleted, and not just rewritten?
Ideally, we should drop the specific revisions that are problematic, leaving the rest of the history intact.
Actually, I think it's reasonable to state that we're only publishing the latest version of the article. It's similar to the way that Google etc. has archives of the pages they index, which are even publicly viewable to a degree, but a clearly not intended to replace the original document and are not presented as such.