[Foundation-l] Authoring on wikijunior : providing private information.
Jean-Baptiste Soufron
jbsoufron at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 22:28:27 UTC 2005
I really don't understand your point.
When you write something, you own your copyright and you only allow
people (including the wmf) to use it under the conditions of the gfdl or
any other license of your choice.
Nicholas Moreau wrote:
> 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,our
> $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
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