[WikiEN-l] BJAODN restored again

[David Goodman]

As is, the requirement to attribute individual edits is at odds with
the general concept  of collective editing on a wiki.

Is there any reason why everything in WP can be put in the PD, with of
course the material that is only fair use indicated? (Essentially the
way the US government does it: everything in their publications is PD,
unless previously copyright elsewhere.) The difference would be that
others could use it without attribution to us, and we wouldn't get the
publicity--but are we in it for publicity or to make an encyclopedia?
DGG


On 6/6/07, Angela Anuszewski <angela.anuszewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're joking, right? How would that differ from allowing the
> > Foundation to assume copyright of all entries? If you wrote the
> > article of the century, pretty much by yourself, some how I doubt a
> > byline of "From Wikipedia, by Wikipedia" wherever it's mirrored would
> > be satisfactory to you. Not without at least a link to the edit
> > history.
> If that was the way the copyrights worked, if they choose Wikipedia as
> the medium to publish what they have written, then they chose to
> accept that as the byline. You don't submit what you don't expect
> others to rewrite, anyway.
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.