[Wikipedia-l] Re: image copyright
Anthere
anthere8 at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 18 11:09:36 UTC 2004
Michael Snow a écrit:
> For stuff that you have a copyright in, you can do whatever the law
> allows to preserve your rights. Basically, you as an individual have the
> same options available to deal with infringement as Wikipedia does.
> Wikipedia doesn't have that much ability to protect the rights of
> individual contributors, it can only protect its own rights. The most
> Wikipedia could do on your behalf is maybe lead a class action suit on
> behalf of all the contributors whose copyrights are being infringed.
> However, I would point out that your rights as a contributor do not come
> from the GFDL. They come from whatever copyright you own. The GFDL gives
> other people permission, it doesn't give you as an author any rights.
>
> --Michael Snow
OK.
But if I give the copyright to Wikipedia, then it is up to Wikipedia to
ensure that its rights as copyright owner are respected ?
If I do transfer the copyright to Wikipedia, do I still stay the author ?
If I do, and someone claim the pictures are his, who has the right to
say it is not true ?
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