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

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Durova<nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Any suggestions what to do about this?
>>
>>     
>
> After my recent perusals of reuses of my images, here's my take:
>
> No one is ever going to pay attention to, let alone understand, let
> alone respect, let alone follow the CC-BY or GFDL requirement for
> credit. Soon, we will stop asking for it.
>
> In order for it to happen, we would have to:
> a) Make the requirement really really prominent
> b) Respect it ourselves
> c) Vehemently complain in a very public manner when a few individuals
> fail to do so.
>
> when d) we have far bigger fish to fry.
>
> I think ultimately most organisations divide media into two
> categories: properietary or free. We can certainly label all our
> material as proprietary and tell people not to reuse it. Or we can
> tell people they can reuse it. But our message of "please reuse it,
> but ...." is not going to get through.
>
> 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.)
>   
I won't take the bait. I will throw in a larger and tastier
bait into the water instead. ;-)


Clearly we cannot take in GFDL only content any more,
but to what extent if any, should we prevent people from
adding in content previously published under CC-BY-SA?


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen