[WikiEN-l] Re: Possible copyright violation of Wikipedia content by Infoslurp.com

Wed Feb 9 22:03:21 UTC 2005

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 20:59, Anthere wrote:
> This is a clear violation of copyright.

IANAL. I am not trained in law. This is not legal advice and the info I give 
may be incorrect.

It is mostly a trade mark violation, with only minor copyright problems.

They don't need to mention Wikipedia anywhere. They just need to mention five 
authors, except if the authors don't require that (which is the case of most 
Wikipedia authors, i.e. anonymous users).

However, I looked at their site and I think that somebody could confuse it for 
the real Wikipedia. This may create trade mark confusion, especially if they 
have a high Google pagerank.

IANAL. I am not trained in law. This is not legal advice and the info I give 
may be incorrect.

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