[WikiEN-l] Grandmother copyrighted anonymous works

Tue Sep 12 15:12:12 UTC 2006

> The following is more likely to be US-specific.
[...]
> Any joint copyright holder can grant a non-exclusive license 
> (such as CC-BY-SA or the GFDL) to anyone, for any reason, but 
> the joint copyright holders must share any financial gain they 
> derive from exclusive use of the work. 

In case common sense and a US-specific answer do not satisfy, you can appeal to
the Berne convention, in force in pretty much everywhere. If your cameraman has
any claim at all (!) he is an unidentifiable author. You are deemed to represent
him.

> But some Wikipedians like to cross their Ts and dot their Is, and they
> even like to force other Wikipedians to do so.  So in some sense it is
> useful to think about this for the case of those Wikipedians, just to
> get them off our backs.

Vigilance against copyvio is good, but I would have some concerns about
excessiveness in this respect. I guess this follows the same pattern as
vigilance against vandalism.

Regards,
Dan