[WikiEN-l] Knol - Our first major scandel

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/4/25  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> In a message dated 4/25/2009 10:20:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> thomas.dalton at gmail.com writes:
>
>
>> The WMF doesn't own those articles, so I'm not sure they can really do
>> anything about it. The actual authors need to complain.>>
>
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> Presents an interesting problem doesn't it?
> *Who* actually has standing?
> I contributed 12 words to the Henry the VIII article.  Is that enough to
> give me standing?  And would any of the minor authors care?
>
> In the long run, it my opinion, that no one is actually going to care how
> the content is used with or without the license, enough, to actually hire a
> lawyer.  Of course someone could *mention* to those who take the content that
> they should really post a back-link and a license notation at least.  I've
> done that in a few cases.

I think it would need someone (the WMF, a local chapter, some other
interest organisation) to offer to represent the content owners.