Quote:I have to admit that the amount of my writing to which he's laid anIf anyone's going to do this, it's going to have to be you. I have history of some of our edits, but you have a log of the pages you created right back to the very beginning. Started well before anyone was thinking of forking or lawsuits or anything, and we have independent evidence of that. And those pages would have to be wiped completely, because the license flows down from the initial creation and they're all derivative works.
illegal copyright claim rankles me every once in a while. I keep
wondering if SFWA would be able to point me at a friendly IP lawyer...
The thing is, that would get All The Tropes major publicity. A wiki fork suing its original wiki for CC license violations? Tech news would be all over that. Right now, I don't know if we could handle the load, as the technical side is having problems (though Orain is now talking about purchasing its own hardware). Still I've been leaning more towards legal action, or at the very least some DMCA notices against tropes of legend.
There is a risk that we could be taken down as well, but I doubt it. I think there are more realistic remedies to the situation. One is that you grant a CC-NC-BY license in exchange for a sum of money from TVT. That's counterintuitive to the whole CC culture, but it's likely the best legal way out of this mess from their POV. My content is likely not worth the lawsuit, but there might be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for you, Bob. A small one, but one that might make it worth while. Unless you want to go for the content burning, which would be more fun but less worth the court costs, you know. Statutory DMCA damages are a possibility, and they're huge, but I don't think Gus has that much money. But I would be interested in what a real lawyer has to say.
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