Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/3/06, SCZenz sczenz@gmail.com wrote:
Claiming copyright on Wikipedia material would be a violation of GFDL. If they claim copyright on everything on their site, and they copy our stuff onto their site, then we can send them a letter they've violated GFDL and asking them to stop. That's all there is to it.
It's not even just a violation of GFDL, it's just a normal copyright violation. The copyright to our articles is held by the contributors of those articles. If they copy them, well, they're breaching our individual copyrights.
But what happens if someone copies over stuff from wikipedia, or somebody adds to wikipedia and to there? It looks like it's impossible to access the history at the Marvel site without registering, but it might be needed to ascertain potential copyright violations. Users might dump text from there into wikipedia. We're already fighting a rearguard battle against some users who think they can simply copy material from Marvel's published character guides, is there a way to register an account which wikipedians can use to verify the dates things were added?
Steve Block