[Wikipedia-l] Re: image copyright

Wed Feb 18 11:09:36 UTC 2004

Michael Snow a écrit:

> For stuff that you have a copyright in, you can do whatever the law 
> allows to preserve your rights. Basically, you as an individual have the 
> same options available to deal with infringement as Wikipedia does. 
> Wikipedia doesn't have that much ability to protect the rights of 
> individual contributors, it can only protect its own rights. The most 
> Wikipedia could do on your behalf is maybe lead a class action suit on 
> behalf of all the contributors whose copyrights are being infringed. 
> However, I would point out that your rights as a contributor do not come 
> from the GFDL. They come from whatever copyright you own. The GFDL gives 
> other people permission, it doesn't give you as an author any rights.
> 
> --Michael Snow

OK.

But if I give the copyright to Wikipedia, then it is up to Wikipedia to 
ensure that its rights as copyright owner are respected ?
If I do transfer the copyright to Wikipedia, do I still stay the author ?
If I do, and someone claim the pictures are his, who has the right to 
say it is not true ?