[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Wed Jun 11 16:25:20 UTC 2008

Andre Engels wrote:
> 2008/6/11 Ting Chen <Wing.Philopp at gmx.de>:
>   
>> Baidupedia is an issue since it came to live. We have tried many times to contact them for this issue.
>>
>> It is not an issue of the individuals, but indeed a foundation issue, because Baidupedia is in a very big scope copyviolating and they don't care, and not only zh-wp is a victim of them.
>>     
> It is an issue of the individuals, because they are the ones whose
> rights have been breached.
>
>
>   
Indeed.  That is one of the big failings of our current licensing 
scheme.  Any one individual's contributions may not be worth the bother 
of a copyright infringement suit, which is always more difficult for the 
plaintiff since he has the burden of proof.  When articles have multiple 
authors the defendant can probably pick the claim apart by pointing out 
that particular sentences were written by persons other than the plaintiff.

Having the licence include an appointment of WMF as a non-exclusive 
agent for the purpose of prosecuting violations could give WMF standing 
to go after the most egregious violators.

Ec