[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[Matthew Brown]

On 4/9/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> Well yes, that's true.  What I hadn't realised was that there appears
> to be a degree of philosophical opposition to the idea of copyright,
> or at least to the idea that we should only include what we know to be
> clean, rather than waiting for conclusive proof before removing
> anything.  That's a reversal of the burden of proof, as far as I'm
> concerned.

The opposition at least in my case is about how far some people and
corporations will go to claim copyright (or trademark, or indeed
patent, although the latter doesn't affect Wikipedia nearly so much)
in ways that range from laughable through questionable and dubious to
unlikely.

-Matt