[WikiEN-l] Knol - Our first major scandel

[geni]

2009/4/26  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> I, along with seven other co-authors, write an article on say.... Cheese
> Whiz.  In the article we state that anyone may copy the article, provided that
> they state where they got it from, and that the article may be copied by
> anyone else provided that they state where they got it from...
>
> Can I alone bring a lawsuit against anyone else copying the article without
> stating where they got it from?  Since the article is not exactly
> *copyright* I would say it's freely licensed under one condition.  Does this really
> fall under copyright law?  Or would it be more in the way of a standard
> contract?

It falls under copyright law. See Jacobsen v. Katzer.

Multiple authors for the most part isn't a problem. With the possible
exception of a few major battleground or very popular articles most
wikipedia articles have someone who would have standing to sue.


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geni