[Wikipedia-l] blatant state-sponsored copyright violations (by Baide Baiku of the PRC)

Sat Jun 3 12:27:01 UTC 2006

2006/6/3, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org>:

> But I don't think it's worth the Wikimedia Foundation spending its
> time or money on, from a cost/benefit analysis.  In fact, I think it's
> questionable whether or not it would be beneficial at all to sue Baidu
> over this.  The only thing I see them doing *really* harmful is that
> they're censoring content, and this is perfectly legal under the terms
> of the GFDL anyway (I suppose Wikipedia could add an invariant section
> ranting about Chinese censorship, but it's not going to happen).

I see that somewhat different - if Baidu would be convinced to adhere
to the GNU/FDL, anything changed on their site could also be
back-imported into the Chinese Wikipedia. If this is going to be a big
thing that might be a big plus for us as well.

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