Thread:Ducksoup/@comment-1370845-20141008093929/@comment-406947-20141008214147

OK, I think I see what's going on here. There has been a major misunderstanding. When I said "Yes I do own the copyright to my text" you thought I was assuring some right to prevent other's from editing my work or something. I most certainly was not.

I wasn't assuring that I had some special rights that other's don't have. When you write something you aromatically own the copyright. You don't need to file anything with a copyright office, or at least not in the United States. On most wikis, including Wikia wikis, when you contribute what you write to the wiki, you publish it under a free content license. In English: that mens that you, tough you do technically retain copyright over what you've written, you in effect give what you write to not just the wiki but the entire world, tough under certain restrictions, and in the case of SporeWiki these restrictions.

I never asserted the right to prevent others from editing my work. I said on my second post to OluapPlayer's wall: my text "is licensed under the CC-BY-SA, thus I have given up certain rights, and it is (as [OluapPlayer] said) for everyone to edit".