[Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonavaro at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 09:25:26 UTC 2009
Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> I have no complaints about commercial use, but I am concerned when a
> commercial user massively takes freely licensed or public domain
> material and parks them under the umbrella of his copyrights so that the
> users of "his" material unwittingly respect a copyright that has no
> basis in fact. If the only ones with rights of action against the
> fraudster are the separate owners of the fragments, we will have loosed
> the tactic of divide and conquer upon our own selves. I would really
> like to see a situation where we nominating someone as an non-exclusive
> agent with the right to prosecute serious copyright violations on a
> class action basis.
>
Is it possible to make this work for copy-left licenses?
That is can one transfer even partially the right to seek
redress to another party? If so, that would be wonderful.
I am sure many contributors would take the advantage of
it.
To be most careful, I would suggest that such party would
be legally differentiated from the Foundation, and would
accept on an equal basis such nominations from contributors
to non-WMF projects as well. Specifically since - at least in
theory - the agent might be requested to act against the
Foundations stated interests.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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