Ray Saintonge wrote: > > I have no complaints about commercial use, but I am concerned when a > commercial user massively takes freely licensed or public domain > material and parks them under the umbrella of his copyrights so that the > users of "his" material unwittingly respect a copyright that has no > basis in fact. If the only ones with rights of action against the > fraudster are the separate owners of the fragments, we will have loosed > the tactic of divide and conquer upon our own selves. I would really > like to see a situation where we nominating someone as an non-exclusive > agent with the right to prosecute serious copyright violations on a > class action basis. >
Is it possible to make this work for copy-left licenses? That is can one transfer even partially the right to seek redress to another party? If so, that would be wonderful. I am sure many contributors would take the advantage of it. To be most careful, I would suggest that such party would be legally differentiated from the Foundation, and would accept on an equal basis such nominations from contributors to non-WMF projects as well. Specifically since - at least in theory - the agent might be requested to act against the Foundations stated interests. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
