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

[Andrew Turvey]

---- "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote: 

> 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. 

Open question: do you think the Foundation and/or local chapters should complain more when their local media fail to respect Wikimedia copyrights? 

Andrew