[WikiEN-l] I will be leaving the project

Tue Jun 21 21:08:35 UTC 2005

On 6/21/05, Andrew Venier <avenier at venier.net> wrote:
> When it comes to copyright problems, all one has to do is anonymously
> claim "I wrote it" when it is found to have been published earier
> elsewhere?  That can't be right.

I agree completely, but at the same time we have imposed an even lower
standard in the past, especially on images.

It's not appropriate to suddenly 'fix' our behavior for a single user
that we have decided we dislike.  And that the copyvio claim has been
argued with means we should not act with extreme haste.

There was no need to aggressively revert the changes, in fact, such
reversions probably do nothing to strengthen our legal standing even
if the text is in violation since the copyvio version was still in the
history.

If you'd like to assist me in pushing stricter copyright conformance  
I'd love the help... Can you think of away to educate users that works
peformed off of copyrighted score, even if the orignal music was
written a zillion years ago, are almost always covered under the
copyright of the score?   Or how about "this shouldn't deserve
copyright" isn't acceptable for photographs of household goods stolen
off the Internet?