[Juriwiki-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright complaints

[Kim Bruning]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:59:02PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Patrick, Brad wrote:
> > To editors on en.wp in particular, don't hesitate to take action on
> > copyvio.  It is better to err on the side of caution and aggressively
> > delete.  The license problem is as much an educational problem as an
> > actual systemic copyvio problem.
> 
> While I thank you for that statement, it's not yet sufficient.

Oh dear, in fact, I originally was going to make this statement
somewhat stronger, along the lines of that people would respond "why
should we listen to some lawyer on some mailing list" and basically
ignore what you were saying.

I deleted that because I thought it'd be too inflammatory to
seriously put on the list.

In the mean time however, reality has caught up with me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Legal_exposure_by_straw_poll


See especially the comments by Mel Etitis, and also note Jkelly. 

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning

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