[R] Wikibooks

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

On a related note, one might be interested in checking out citizendium 
which is spin off wikipedia but 1) has more stringent identity 
verification and 2) uses a two-tier system of editors and authors. See 
http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html.



Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On 3/30/07, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/30/07, Alberto Monteiro <albmont at centroin.com.br> wrote:
>>> Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
>>>> I was just looking at this page, and it makes me curious: what gives
>>>> anyone the right to take someone else's mailing list post and include
>>>> that in a Wiki?
>>>>
>>> Thinks there were posted to public mailing lists are freely
>>> copied and distributed. It's a scary thought; I may have posted
>>> things in 10 or 12 years ago that might cause me problems today,
>>> but I was pretty aware that I was posting to the whole world.
> 
> There's a difference between public archiving and copying.
> 
>> It's not that simple. Dealing with international contributors it's even worse.
>> Under US law (the only one I'm familiar with), the author of a mailing list
>> post or any other written work _automatically holds copyright_ to that
>> post (although not to the ideas contained therein, but to that particular
>> description of the ideas). (Of course, if the ideas are original to the author,
>> it's good form to acknowledge that regardless of whether the exact words
>> are used).
> 
> I believe this is true for all countries that are signatory to the
> Berne convention (which is pretty much all countries [1]). The US in
> fact was one of the later ones to get into it, before which you had to
> explicitly copyright things if you wanted copyright.
> 
> -Deepayan
> 
> [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Berne_Convention.png
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