[WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/24 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
>
>   
>> Well, taking a first stab at this.  Here's my letter to Wired:
>> Per the recent New York Times admission that one of your editors plagiarized
>> content from Wikipedia uncredited, I respectfully request credit for media
>> work of mine that Wired has reproduced without credit.
>>     
>
>
> Restoration is painstaking work on behalf of the cultural commons and
> well worth encouraging and crediting.
>
> It's a different question whether it can use the same big stick of
> copyright that CC or GFDL can. Possibly not in the US, per Bridgeman
> vs Corel. (Though any actual statement on the subject would have to be
> in court.)
>
> I would expect that asking nicely and encouraging credit of restorers
> is the best that can be done at this stage, and that it strikes me as
> worth doing.
>
> I'm not entirely sure that I'd agree that not crediting a restorer
> (when crediting the original) would count as "plagiarism." That's a
> different kettle of fish, I think.
>
>   

I agree. But on the moral rights angle, it does breach
the inalienable right of paternity to a work. Paternity
is there even for modifications.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen