Thomas Hofer wrote:
There's a point that I don't understand: Wikipedia has no records about copyright-holders in its diffs and changelogs. When I create or edit a page, the corporation that runs Wikipedia is the copyright-holder of all my changes - which minimizes copyright-troubles. (And gives the corporation the right to release modified or unmodified content under any other license if they want).
If this is true, I find it quite worrying - I have put material on Wikipedia that I have also published elsewhere. Does this mean that it can be claimed this other publishing goes against Wikipedia's copyright?
As far as I know, I have not signed away my copyright on the material I submit to Wikipedia. In my opinion, this means that I still hold the copyright of the pieces I have written, although the corporation is the copyright-holder of the site as a whole. I have not given up copyright, I just restricted my rights as the copyright holder by: 1. Putting the material under a Free Documentation License 2. Allowing any type of publishing and changing that one could reasonably expect be done to a Wikipedia entry