[Foundation-l] Publishing

Wed Jul 5 14:41:18 UTC 2006

The lawyer is very much aware of this problem now and will be working on
it.  In particular I am fascinated that two of our stellar 'IANAL' folks are
the persons who wrote [[Wikibooks:Copyright]].

On 7/4/06, mboverload <mboverload at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dont we have a lawyer for these kind of things? =D
>
> On 7/4/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
> >
> > Anthere wrote:
> >
> > >Also, unless I am wrong in what defines an "author", I
> > >see not why the Foundation would be listed as a
> > >co-author of the books, or of any wikibooks in the
> > >future.
> > >
> > >
> > In part I am responsible for this chain of events as far as claiming the
> > WMF as an "author". I'm still not convinced that the Foundation isn't an
> > author or at least a copyright claimant, but I was trying to make a
> > politically neutral sentiment when I created the copyright notice that
> > the Wikijunior books have which simply stated the following:
> >
> > "(c) Copyright 2004–2006, Wikimedia Foundation Inc. and contributing
> > authors, all rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy, distribute
> > and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Document
> > License, version 1.2."
> >
> > I have tried to solicit comments about this wording, and the page it is
> > on
> > (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Solar_System/Copyright_Notice)
> > dates back to over a year ago when I first put it up. I'm sorry that it
> > has created this kind of problem. All this user did was use the WMF name
> > as one of the "authors", just as the copyright notice claimed.
> >
> > I know this was a small detail at the time, but it is the kind of minor
> > detail that can create huge problems if not done correctly. If there are
> > any reasonable suggestions on how to change the wording of this
> > copyright slug and what should be listed here instead, it would be
> > appreciated. This is a Wiki page and thus is editable by ordinary
> > Wikimedia users as well
> >
> > --
> > Robert Scott Horning
> >
> >
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