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The page currently reads "By entering information on Wikipedia you are actually losing rights to your own material, and cannot copy your own material elsewhere without complying with Wikipedia's burdensome copyright restrictions."  That's incorrect...  Wikipedia contributors are required to license their contributions under the GFDL, but under the law, the contributor still owns the copyright to the work^* and may license the contribution under other additional licenses.  Wikipedia even encourages this sometimes.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_the_public_domain#Advice_for_users_of_our_content] --[[User:Interiot|Interiot]] 12:16, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

The page currently reads "By entering information on Wikipedia you are actually losing rights to your own material, and cannot copy your own material elsewhere without complying with Wikipedia's burdensome copyright restrictions."  That's incorrect...  Wikipedia contributors are required to license their contributions under the GFDL, but under the law, the contributor still owns the copyright to the work^* and may license the contribution under other additional licenses.  Wikipedia even encourages this sometimes.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_the_public_domain#Advice_for_users_of_our_content] --[[User:Interiot|Interiot]] 12:16, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

::::::<tt>*</tt> If licensing a work under the GFDL (or any other license) meant that the author no longer was the copyright holder, then they would have no legal basis in law for enforcing the license in the courts.

::::::<tt>*</tt> If licensing a work under the GFDL (or any other license) meant that the author no longer was the copyright holder, then they would have no legal basis in law for enforcing the license in the courts, and therefore the alternative license would be useless, and alternative licenses would never be used.