Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

In message <46A13930.40409digitalbazaar.com>, Manu
Sporny 
<mspornydigitalbazaar.com> writes

>The wording of the current template isn't explicit about
past 
>contributions. The statement could be interpreted as
"all future 
>contributions" since most legal statements are not
retroactive unless 
>explicitly stated.

I doubt that any person trained in law would support that 
interpretation.

>  Please consider adding "retroactively" or
"all past, present and 
>future contributions" to the text.

I think any attempt to change the terms of a statement
whereby people 
have released some of their rights, after they have done so,
to make it 
appear that they may have relinquished additional rights,
would be 
regarded as highly suspect and of no legal standing,.

If you want to apply new - and especially more relaxed -
terms, each 
individual will have to agree to them again.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
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Hi Andy,

On Jul 20, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> Please consider adding "retroactively" or
"all past, present and  
>> future contributions" to the text.
>
> I think any attempt to change the terms of a statement
whereby  
> people have released some of their rights, after they
have done so,  
> to make it appear that they may have relinquished
additional rights,  
> would be regarded as highly suspect and of no legal
standing,.
>
> If you want to apply new - and especially more relaxed
- terms, each  
> individual will have to agree to them again.

You're right -- if it becomes a problem, we'd need to create
a new  
version "" and ask people to
"up" their commitment to  
that.  However, that's probably premature at this point. I
do think  
everyone here is doing their best to act in good faith, so
hopefully  
some of the corner cases will be sorted out through other
means in the  
next week or so.

-- Ernie P.

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