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

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 5/15/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I'm referring to the situation which I quoted directly above my question.

Anthony