Comment by some_random
8 hours ago
A "marketplace of ideas" wikipedia is not wikipedia, that's twitter or maybe reddit. More importantly, your theory of copyright being unwaivable without an employee-employer relationship makes the entire internet unworkable. Nothing could accept user input of any kind unless it can be ruled uncopyrightable.
Just link original author, and do notndestroy their work, even copyleft license wikipedia uses demands that!
Authors and revisions are available in the history tab. Editing an article is permitted by the license.
If editing an article opens you up to copyright lawsuits for "destroying their work", it's completely untenable.
With a moral rights framework, that depends on the content of the edit.
If for example you edit in racist views and leave the attribution of the original author because it’s just a one word change from “the holocaust” to “the alleged holocaust”, then yes you are open to a lawsuit for any harm that results from that malicious edit.
This is especially true with my example as that view would run afoul of criminal statue in many counties.
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