[WikiEN-l] Re: copyrights issues

Sun Jan 25 10:22:21 UTC 2004

This said...this is not the first time that happens. Usually, the 
mention the text is gfdl is there.

But usually as well, there is no mention of Wikipedia, no mention of any 
  author, no link to wikipedia itself, no link to the article or to the 
article history.

In short, the text is considered public domain, since there is no 
respect for who wrote it. So...that is nice, since the text is being 
used by others. But our project is not gaining anything. No reputation 
as it is not considered the origin of the text, and no new contributors, 
since there are no links.

Each time I raise the topic on fr, a contributor answers that no where 
in the license is it written that wikipedia name itself should be 
mentionned. And that the projet itself could disappear, hence making 
disappear the names of the contributions. So that it is not worth it to 
ask for a link to be put back to wikipedia itself

Conclusions are that the names of the contributors themselves only 
should be mentionned (on the site using the content - which is totally 
impracticable), or that we should ask a link to the history of the 
article (which is imho, bound to let many readers of the site in 
question quite abashed and wondering what is that stuff about).

Consequently, no one is doing anything, and sites are beginning to use 
our content without any recognition of our rights.

This is ***seriously*** beginning to bug me.

Anthere a écrit:
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> Anthere a écrit:
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>> Could someone give us a link to a draft page of emails to send to 
>> someone using wikipedia content without respecting the terms of the 
>> licence ?
>>
>> I saw several times great emails examples published on the list (the 
>> last one was really good). Does someone know the link ? Or is there 
>> somewhere a page from which we can inspire ourselves to make a 
>> standard copyright violation notice ?
>>
>> Thanks
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> Thanks Mav and Mark. I copied the english version, and lauched a 
> campaign of collaborative translation/adaptation on fr: :-)