Mark Christensen wrote:
I was not clear. Those who wrote content would have standing to sue, as would Bomis, because the writers own the copyright to the texts, and Bomis owns the copyright to the collection.
I think this is true only to the extent that someone does something naughty with _the collection_. If Microsoft takes an individual article from Wikipedia and modifies it and publishes it with the claim that it is proprietary and no one can redistribute it, then I think I'd have a hard time pressing a claim that they violated the copyright of our collection.
So then it would be up to the individual contributors to do something about it. Probably they could sell me the copyright for a dollar at that time, with the understanding that I'd go after the bad people in court. Or possibly various people who care about the project, including me, could put together a fund to sue.
--Jimbo