[Foundation-l] re GFDL publisher credit

[Anthony]

On 7/14/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> " ...Wikimedia doesn't transfer the ownership of anything, and there is no
> rental, lease, or lending. But then again, by that definition
> *nothing* distributed over the Internet is published, and I doubt a
> court would agree with that...."
>
> Because of the way the GFDL works, ownership is transferred to every person
> that receives it.

Ownership of what?  The ownership of copyright doesn't get
transferred.  Copies of the work don't get transferred.  What gets
transferred?  Bits?

Anthony