On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote: The problem is that one can never trust a company. Companies regularly go back on their words if it's profitable for them. Also, companies can go bust and their property sold off to to cover debts. This also goes for my company, and it's made me think I should try to transfer it to some local organization instead - a LUUG or the local branch of the EFF. These are considerations we should take with all such domains, and with all contact we have with companies: Only contracts and licenses will do. --- Btut I still don't know who to contact in order to hook up the domain to Wikipedia's DNS servers. Can anyone help me here? -- Daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

> The problem is that one can never trust a company. Companies regularly go > on their words if it's profitable for them. Also, companies can go bust and > their property sold off to to cover debts.

Bankruptcies can have an uncertain effect on copyrights. When the assets are liquidated the company's copyrights may be completely ignored, or not noticed at all. They are not distributed or sold as assets. My contention would be that when the bankruptcy is discharged without a distribution of copyrights, that would put the copyrights into the public domain. Copyright is a property right. Can a property right exist in the absence of someone to own it?