[Wikipedia-l] The Defendent

[Ray Saintonge]

Delirium wrote:

> Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> I think Flexicon is the logical defendent with Wikipedia as a the 
>> plaintiff
>> should we chose to not accept repeated violations of our copyright, if
>> contact with them requesting compliance proves unproductive. Ulrich 
>> Fuchs is
>> right to point this out but throwing in the "five author" question is 
>> not
>> productive as we do want people, including commercial sites, to reuse 
>> our
>> material without onerous requirements.
>>   
>
> I'm not sure how Wikipedia could be the plaintiff, as it doesn't hold 
> copyright to the material.  The material I've submitted to Wikipedia, 
> for example, is copyrighted by me.  I have licensed it under the GFDL, 
> so Wikipedia, as well as anyone else willing to abide by the terms of 
> the GFDL, is free to use my text.  But they have no more rights to it 
> than any other random person or entity does. 

So if Wikipedia can't be plaintiff, and you as an individual author are 
not willing to be plaintiff, then GFDL is no more than a paper tiger 
since violators may copy things with impunity.

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