Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180814202900/@comment-36292647-20180814225956

MrDupin wrote: Llanunall wrote:

What they are saying is that we cannot license stories we don't own the copyright to under the CC-By-SA license.

Example, someone uploads a story they found online but don't attribute it or add a license header. In this case we would need to get into contact with the poster to find out if they are the author. If they are not the author then we need to either delete the pasta, as the author did not agree to license it, or track down the author and see if they will license it under CC-By-SA.

That would be a huge overkill. I can't recall anybody enforcing their copyright here, so I doubt there are many cases such as the above.

Besides, if we go by this logic, every story on the wiki not posted by the original author should be deleted. And even then, how do we know if they really are the original author? It's either the whole wiki is deleted, or the stories with no licensing stay.

I am 100% sure this will not be an issue. As an example, from what I understand, when you post on Reddit you immediately copyright your work. So, if I post a story there, even if it's not mine, I get the copyright to it. There is nothing preventing me from doing that, and Reddit is fine. So we are fine too.

I am no lawyer, but I highly doubt the burden in these cases falls on the host. There would be nothing on the internet if that was the case. It is not a matter of whether or not someone is going to enforce their copyright. It is a matter of whether or not we have the right to re-license stories without the permission of the author. Which we don't.

The point is that stories we do not know the true author of are ones the Cleric is going to go to staff about. Every other story though needs to be posted by the author and under the CC-By-SA license expressly. It seems like a significant amount of stories are going to go though based on the OP.

That is a grave misunderstanding. Reddit makes no claim to copyright nor does it force a license. Because of this it is assumed that you have the permission to repost content there if it is not yours. However, if it is your content, under US law you automatically get copyright for the work when it is created. Copyright is granted upon creation, not posting.