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

[David Gerard]

2009/6/25 Siobhan Hansa <helenseal at gmail.com>:
> Steve Bennett wrote:

>> And why do you care anyway? Vanity? Curiosity? Is it that important?
>> Is a little piece of text on some idiot's webpage the difference
>> between you contributing your time next time and not? Is the
>> gratification of your name in cyberspace your primary motivation for
>> producing useful free images?
>> (These questions are rhetorical and deliberately inflammatory. Take
>> the bait with caution.)

> A less ego bound reason* for wanting to see some acknowledgment -
> especially through a link to Wikipedia or the like - is that it is
> advocacy for the intellectual commons. This could encourage others to
> get involved or to consider making their content free.
> Also if the importance of free content isn't widely understood it will
> be harder for policy makers to come to good decisions about laws or
> other public support that might impact it.


Yes. It will help the commons considerably for free content licenses
to visibly be out there and acknowledged. And it's not onerous for a
newspaper to print "Photo by xxxx, CC by-sa 3.0". Or even "Photo by
xxx, restored by xxx," even if the restoration wouldn't generate a
fresh copyright.


- d.