[WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages and GFDL

Fri Dec 9 10:18:46 UTC 2005

>I'm wondering how many US copyright lawyers are participating in this
>discussion.
>
>While we're all speaking out of our butts, let me add that simply
>explicating that by submitting to Wikipedia you're willing to accept
>authorship credit under the collective name of "Wikipedia
>contributors" would likely handle any legal considerations.
>
>But IANAL. And it's not like lawyers actually know anything. It's all
>whistling Dixie until a court rules.

It's less about authorship and more about accountablility.
We need those names so we know who to hold responsible if the info is wrong.