[WikiEN-l] Copyright violation

Sat Nov 15 08:10:02 UTC 2003

Arvind Narayanan wrote:
>The site http://www.chessandbeyond.com has 
>copied several articles from Wikipedia. There's 
>nothing about wikipedia on those pages, and at 
>the bottom there is the statement
>
>   Copyright Â© 2003 Chess And Beyond
>   ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This really pisses me off and is a very clear violation of the GNU FDL. They 
not only failed to credit the Wikipedia article as the source but then they 
try to pretend that they own the copyright! This is legally and morally 
wrong. 

Since you are actually one of the authors you are on very good footing to 
complain. 

First, list the website at:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sites_that_use_Wikipedia_for_content#Articles_with_issues

Then write them a letter:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Standard_GFDL_violation_letter

If they stonewall you after a letter and a follow-up letter, then come back to 
the list and we will discuss what to do next.  

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)