[WikiEN-l] GFDL lawsuits - who can sue?

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Mon May 15 23:11:39 UTC 2006


On 5/15/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> Is it illegal to claim you have copyright control over something you
> do not?  I'm sure there are plently of laws against claiming you
> *wrote* something you didn't, but if you properly attribute the
> authors but tack on a false claim of copyright, I don't see how that
> can be illegal.

I'm not sure what you're meaning here - are you talking about falsely
claiming that you own the copyright on the material, but attributing
the authorship correctly?

-Matt



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