Re: Re: Copyright violation

 From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149-/[email protected]>
 > Axel wrote:
> >Material that's in the public domain remains in the
> >public domain forever. Nobody can attack it and
> >nobody can defend it. You can slap a  bogus copyright
> >notice on a public domain work, but that does not
> >change  its public domain status.
>
> But the edits made be others to your public domain text are, by default,
under
> copyright. So the resulting derivative work is under copyright, especially
if
> significant changes have been made. However the beauty of wiki technology
is
> that somebody could easily go into the page's history and find the diffs
> where you made changes. Then all the text that you, and /only/ you, wrote
> could be used as public domain text.
>
> At least that is my understanding how it works.
>
> IANAL.
>
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

IAAL, but this is not a legal opinion.

Yes, someone who has posted a text into the PD, that is always in the PD,
any changes afterwards are a derivative work, but if one does the due
dilligence to determine that a prior version of a page is in the PD then
that version will always be in the PD afterwards. Of course if someone
uses a derviative work they run the risk of having incorporated copyright
work into a PD work in a fashion that they are integrally connected and
thus the derivative work is no longer in the PD. Of course the extent to
which the work is altered could be separated from the PD work. It is
not an easy call.

ALEX756