Hi Axel!
Just a quick clarification on collection copyrights: if you put together a collection of materials, then you acquire a copyright in your particular presentation of the collection, not in the materials of the collection themselves.
Okay, but my question is: Does Bomis put together a collection of the articles, actively? I mean, Jimbo doesn't say: Okay, we'll take this article, it's good quality, but I'll keep that one out because it's complete nonsense (like a Linux distributor does).
You could perhaps say we all own the collection copyright (because everybody decides if an article is good or so bad that it should be edited/replaced/deleted). Or a collection copyright doesn't exist for Wikipedia, because it's just a source out of which people could create collections (e.g. printed encyclopedias).
But that's more my sense of justice than a funded knowing of the legal facts.
Bye, Kurt