On 8/29/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/29/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Even articles I wrote almost every word of are not anywhere near entirely my own, because they are so vastly improved by what others do to them. My pictures, however, are mine.
AFAIK, the editors, friends, wives, colleagues, flatmates etc of authors have no part of the copyright of printed works. Even if someone breaks your stream of consciousness into sections, formats it and adds a graphic or two, it's still "entirely your own".
Steve
But people don't upload their individual, solo, original printed works onto Wikipedia, they upload extensively researched information from other people's original printed works, then others edit them. The originals worth having are published under copyright and sold with the author's name on them.
Photographers upload their original photographs to Wikipedia.
KP