About licensing & copyright

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(This'll stay to make whoever put it here happy. But seriously if it says in terms and conditions X and people are dumb enough to expect Y who's fault is that exactly?) I feel Penguin Books are misleading a lot of people with this project. They present it as though it is "Wikipedia, except a novel!" but the licensing is significantly different. Whereas Wikipedia uses a copyleft license, this novel is going to be owned by Penguin Books. I urge Penguin Books to reconsider this and I advise people not to contribute to this project unless they want Penguin Books to own the copyright.

From the Terms & Conditions:

Copyright This Site is owned and operated by Penguin Books Limited (“Penguin”) and the information and materials appearing on the Site (“the Content”) are displayed for personal, non-commercial use only. All software used on this Site and all Content included on this Site (including without limitation Site design, text, graphics, audio and video and the selection and arrangement thereof) is the property of Penguin or its suppliers and is protected by international copyright laws.

- personally i think that just ebcause you enter somthing online that you should try to claim license over it. it should be given freely, and if penguin amke a book out of this in the end then so be it.. our reward will be if our creativty makes it somthing special.

- the objection above may or may not be correct, but that fact that the author deleted everyone else's work and replaced it with their own polemic rather negates their credibility, in my opinion. Thanks to whoever restored the original discussion.

- The way I see it, is that Penguin could put this together into a book and sell it, if it turns out to be okay, or better. Now, if they didn't own the copyright to the Text, someone could just put it on the net for free (but, wait, um...) Still it will be interesting to see how the sales of the book might go.