[WikiEN-l] Knol - Our first major scandel

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Apr 26 22:10:47 UTC 2009


Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/4/25  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
>   
>> 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.

At one time in the past I did suggest that contributors could appoint 
WMF as a non-exclusive non-obligatory agent that could have standing to 
sue on behalf of contributors, but there was not much enthusiasm for 
that idea.

Ec




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