On a related note, one might be interested in checking out citizendium which is spin off wikipedia but 1) has more stringent identity verification and 2) uses a two-tier system of editors and authors. See http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html.
Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Deepayan Sarkar wrote: >>>> I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives >>>> anyone the right to take someone else's mailing list post and include >>>> that in a Wiki? >>>> >>> Thinks there were posted to public mailing lists are freely >>> copied and distributed. It's a scary thought; I may have posted >>> things in 10 or 12 years ago that might cause me problems today, >>> but I was pretty aware that I was posting to the whole world. > > There's a difference between public archiving and copying. > >> It's not that simple. Dealing with international contributors it's even >> worse. >> Under US law (the only one I'm familiar with), the author of a mailing list >> post or any other written work _automatically holds copyright_ to that >> post (although not to the ideas contained therein, but to that particular >> description of the ideas). (Of course, if the ideas are original to the >> author, >> it's good form to acknowledge that regardless of whether the exact words >> are used). > > I believe this is true for all countries that are signatory to the > Berne convention (which is pretty much all countries [1]). The US in > fact was one of the later ones to get into it, before which you had to > explicitly copyright things if you wanted copyright. > > -Deepayan > > [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Berne_Convention.png > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
