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From: Bill <>
Subject: Re: [WIKI-GENPAGES] My Heritage
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:09:37 -0500
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thanks Dallan

That was a helpful clarification. Definitely makes the circumstances
more clear.

> Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. These views are just my opinion.


And until the lawyers take a case to court, we're all in the same
boat. We have opinions, and those opinions may be useful in guiding
our thinking,
but ultimately what's the "right" view of it is something that's
going to be decided in court. Until then, the best we can have is
"intelligent thought".

Thanks again for the intelligent thoughts

Bill


On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Dallan Quass wrote:

>>> Technically, in a wiki you retain the copyright to the text
>> that you
>>> have added to the page, and you agree to an "open-content" license
>>> that says that others can use your copyrighted text.
>>
>> If others can use it more or less at will, you're ability to
>> uniquely profit from your own work is pretty much given up.
>> Yes, you could turn it into a book and sell it, but then so
>> could anyone else.
>>
>> So, exactly what "right" do you retain in the sense that you
>> have a copyright? Doesn't sound like you have any to me.
>
> You have the right to re-publish your material under another
> license if you
> want to. You don't have to abide by the wiki license requirements
> for any
> work that you personally submit to the wiki. You could for example
> create a
> "derivative work" by adding some new material and publish it in an
> all-rights-reserved book.
>
>>> (2) If you create a "derivative work" based upon information you
>>> obtained from the wiki, you are obligated to make your
>> derivative work
>>> available under the same license.
>>
>> If you write some text and place it on the wiki, then decide
>> to use that text in a later work, perhaps modifying it in
>> some way, but with the essential ideas more or less intact,
>> and inserting in the middle of a larger context, wouldn't
>> that later work be "derivitive".
>
> Yes.
>
>> And you're saying that you'd be obligated to distribute that
>> under whatever copyleft applied?
>
> If you include others' work from the wiki in your derivative work,
> then yes.
> You'd be obligated to abide by the wiki license. But if you're
> using just
> your own work that you submitted to the wiki, then no. Since you
> retain
> copyright, you're free to re-publish your work however you want.
>
> -dallan
> http://www.werelate.org/wiki/User:Dallan
>
> Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. These views are just my opinion.
>
>
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