[Foundation-l] Authoring on wikijunior : providing private information.

[Nicholas Moreau]

On 10/6/05, foundation-l-request at wikimedia.org <
foundation-l-request at wikimedia.org> wrote:What I am asking for is that if
you want to claim copyright on your contribution, you need to give this
minimum amount of information for legal protection and to give a realistic
copyright claim on your contributions. As it stands right now, there is no
way that you can realisticly claim copyright on any of your contributions
right now, and certainly there is no way that you canresolve potential
copyright claims on material if it goes to court in a dispute.


Okay, suppose I didn't include my information, and I wanted to claim
copyright on content in Wikijunior.

I take the Foundation to court, saying "I CLAIM MY COPYRIGHT ON THIS!"

The defendant's lawyer says "But, you can't. On the website, when you
contribute anything to any Wikimedia project, it says that you're
contributing this info to the Wikimedia Foundation."

Like, seeing that I have my information on the "contributors" page, does
that mean I own part of the Wikijunior project, and thus can profit from my
"share" of the contribution? Every time one issue of the books is published,
$0.02 come rolling into my PayPal account? What? If that's the case, I'm
doing fifty edits under fifty different usernames.

I honestly am dumb-founded on what you consider "claiming [my] copyright",
on something solely copyrighten by the foundation.

Nick/Zanimum