2009/4/26 <[email protected]>: > I, along with seven other co-authors, write an article on say.... Cheese > Whiz. In the article we state that anyone may copy the article, provided that > they state where they got it from, and that the article may be copied by > anyone else provided that they state where they got it from... > > Can I alone bring a lawsuit against anyone else copying the article without > stating where they got it from? Since the article is not exactly > *copyright* I would say it's freely licensed under one condition. Does this > really > fall under copyright law? Or would it be more in the way of a standard > contract?
It falls under copyright law. See Jacobsen v. Katzer. Multiple authors for the most part isn't a problem. With the possible exception of a few major battleground or very popular articles most wikipedia articles have someone who would have standing to sue. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
