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(a)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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