[WikiEN-l] Aww, so cute, a banned user is trying to take us down with a DMCA notice

Thu Jun 1 20:39:47 UTC 2006

On 5/31/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> If our complainer is through some recursive slight of hand both
> contributor and infringer of something that was originally written as a
> part of Wikipedia he is in violation of the GFDL.  GFDL makes no sense
> unless the licensing is irrevocable in the first place.
>
The GFDL is automatically revoked when there is any copying or
distribution done which doesn't follow the terms of the GFDL.

Since Wikipedia doesn't follow the GFDL, its license is automatically
revoked every time it distributes a page.

> Does any Wikipedian living in the United States want to issue a counter
> notification giving jurisdiction to the Federal District Court where he
> lives?  I could file from outside the US, but I am having a problem
> interpreting the phrase "any judicial district in which the service
> provider may be found".  For me the most convenient district would be
> the one that includes the State of Washington, but it's unclear whether
> that choice is available to me.
>
> Ec

I certainly won't be issuing a counter notification, because I don't
think there is a very good defense against copyright infringement.
Sure, you could argue an implicit license, but surely that's not going
to hold up against an explicit revocation of any such license.

Anthony