[Bf-docboard] Copyright issues on new pages

[Joe Eagar]

Matt Ebb wrote:
>
> On 11/07/2006, at 01:18 AM, Alastair Mason wrote:
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>> DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION! "
>
>> ...
>
>> submitting copy writed work seems to be against the sumission rights 
>> of the wiki.
>>
>> al
>>
>
> No. Generally, every creative work is automatically copyrighted when 
> it's made. You can then use a license to give permission for people to 
> use that copyrighted work in extra ways (distribution, editing, etc.) 
> All original work submitted to the wiki is copyrighted by the author, 
> and this isn't a problem, it's the submission of copyrighted work 
> *without permission* that is a problem.
Um.  I must not being clear here.  The reason why I worry is that 
someday there may be another print of the manual, and it'd be terrible 
if a bunch of wiki stuff had to be thrown out because the authors 
couldn't be found and they didn't explicitly put their work under Open 
Content. 

I don't worry about the *wiki* having copyright problems, I worry about 
the headaches that might arise if the manual has no clear licensing *and 
the BF wants to print another edition of it*.  As I understand it, no 
publisher will print something that has parts with unclear licensing.

Joe