On 4/3/07, Andrew Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
I've been reading along silently and now I would like to make a comment.
What the heck is all the fuss about?
Look, why is this an issue at all - if you post to a public wiki it is
in the Public Domain - maybe I am being naive but here is how I feel:
maybe someone will come along and use something that I posted to the
wiki in their own work - great!
That was why I took the time to make postings there in the first
place, to give away some information that someone else might find
useful. The operative terms there being 'give away' and 'useful'.
Just my perspective on this, after all the name is OO.o not OO.corp - isn't it?
I believe that is the way it *should* work. And truth be told I'd like
to see what is copyrightable drastically curtailed. But in the U.S.
since 1989, copyright is automatic. I.e., it's opt-out rather than
opt-in. Unless a license is specifically granted, any copying of the
content is legally an infringement.
So in the U.S., posting to a public wiki implicitly allows the web
site operator to publish the content. But reproducing the content in
any other way exceeds the implied license.
Like I said earlier, I have no work-around for the problem of
recycling wiki content, at least none that isn't pretty intricate. I
suspect that is why all wikis that can be edited by the public simply
ignore the problem. The downside is that it does leave the site
operator exposed legally, albeit the risk is small.
Best regards,
Marbux
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