[WikiEN-l] Trading with the Enemy

Sat Feb 28 14:27:08 UTC 2004

David Speakman wrote:
> 1. WP authors give up all rights to the public domain. Once it is
> uploaded onto the WP servers it no longer is a work belonging to any one
> person.

This is not true.  Where did you get that idea?  You should probably
study up on the differences between the GNU FDL and "public domain".

> 2. Trade requires that the writer gets money or other tangible goods in
> exchange for services. WP is one way.

That isn't what the story says.  But if you're right, that's great,
although it tempts me personally to find and pay an author in one of
those countries $1 to contribute to Wikipedia, and then to edit it.

I'll ask Larry Lessig and Eugene Volokh (both 1st Amendment scholars)
to comment on this.