On 4/9/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@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