I am proud of my work, not of my name being on my work. that's narcissism. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.yu> wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2009 11:23:33 Ray Saintonge wrote: >> David Goodman wrote: >> > My view is that any restriction of distribution that is not absolutely >> > and unquestionably legally necessary is a violation of the moral >> > rights of the contributors. We contributed to a free encyclopedia, in >> > the sense that the material could be used freely--and widely. We all >> > explicitly agreed there could be commercial use, and most of us did >> > not particularly concern ourselves with how other commercial or >> > noncommercial sites would use or license the material, as long as what >> > we put on Wikipedia could be used by anyone. >> >> Precisely! To a large extent, we are effectively releasing our work >> into the public domain, except for the fact that in some countries this > > No, we are not, and it is ridiculous to even think that. First of all, I > would most certainly not work on Wikipedia or any similar project if that > would mean that my work is put in the public domain. > >> is not allowed. Also, putting a work into the public domain means >> abandoning our rights of action in the event that there is infringement > > No, it does not. Even if we have had put our work in public domain, in most > jurisdictions we would still retain our moral rights. No one would be allowed > to claim to be the author, for example. > >> on that public ownership. There is no custodian of the public domain to >> take action when the copyrights of the general public have been infringed. > > Yes, there is. For example, Copyright law of Serbia explicitly specifies > (Article 56) that author's heirs, associations of authors and scientific and > art institutions are entitled to protect moral rights of the authors. > >> edit each others' work mercilessly. Having a long list of names in >> 2-point type just so that the individual editor can see his name in >> print is wasteful and contrary to the spirit of our collective effort. > > It is not having editors' names anywhere that is wasteful and contrary to the > spirit of our collective effort. People are doing what they are because they > take pride of what they do. If people are not properly credited, fewer people > will work on the projects. If people are not properly credited, they will > care less about their reputation and write worse. There is absolutely nothing > to gain, and a number of things to lose from not crediting the authors. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
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