Development of Creative Commons licenses

[wiki_tomos <wiki_tomos AT inter7.jp>]

Hello. There are numerous ways to address these issues, but here is one 
that I commonly find. 

1. Contributors all retain their rights to the part they contributed. 
That means that the work is in part their work. So yes, the story 
developed through the collaboration of many users on your wiki will be 
owned jointly by multiple authors. 

2. Contributors all give permission to the general public to use the 
work in certain way. For example, people all agree that their contributions 
could be reproduced, performed, transformed, translated, etc. under 
CC-BY 2.5 license. In MediaWiki, you can edit the text of 
MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning, and thereby make sure that contributors 
release their contributions under a specified license. 

3. Because of the license to the public, anybody, either the owner of 
the wiki or others, can use the submitted work under the license. 

Hope it helps, but please note that I am not a lawyer. I could be 
wrong on many points & assumptions. 

Best Regards, 

Tomos

Alex Trujillo wrote:

>Hello; I'm an avid MediaWiki operator.
>
>My latest project is a FictionWiki-- a wiki for the collaborative  
>editing and fabrication of stories.
>
>However, there might be certain problems with this idea.
>
>Since the wiki can be edited freely-- once you sign up as a member,  
>of course --anyone can make changes to the work that's hosted there.  
>Edits are tracked, so vandalism shouldn't be a problem, but what  
>would be a problem is if someone makes a small change to the story,  
>or even a large one, and they become owner of the work. How would we  
>define the owner or owners of each story?
>
>Also, if a user wishes to publish one of their/our hosted works, will  
>they have difficulty, since it was already "published" online, or  
>that the license may be considered to belong someone else?
>
>Are there any other points I may be missing? Should I be worried?  
>What license should the wiki run under?
>
>- Alex Trujillo, aka CryptoQuick,
>FictionWiki.org, Phyco.org, Syst3m0v3rl0ad.com
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