Anthony wrote:
On 10/21/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
the notion that merely mentioning the name Wikipedia entitles us to take his work from him is ridiculous.
Please stop mischaracterizing what I'm saying.
Sorry. Is the following better?
The notion that we are entitled to take his work from him merely for mentioning the name Wikipedia in the title of his book about Wikipedia is ridiculous.
That's what I meant. I figured you knew that I was speaking of your claim, but I guess somebody could have gotten confused somehow.
In my opinion it's always right to force someone to release their work under a free license. Only some of the time it's legal, though.
Ah. Oh. I see.
You do recognize that this is an opinion so far out of the mainstream that to have the Wikimedia Foundation follow it, especially to the extent of suing people over how they title their books, would be a major PR disaster, right?
William