[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Wed Jun 11 23:30:34 UTC 2008

> I have long felt that the difficulties when our collective copyrights
> are breached would be greater than any problem we would face in trying
> to abide by the rights of others.  We have any number of layers to
> protect us from legal liabilities from copyvios, but there is very
> little effort to deal with being on the other side of the dispute.  This
> is definitely a point that I would raise before the Board if elected.
>
> Ec
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> Financially, I have been led to believe the WMF does not really have the
resources available to be spending on prosecuting intellectual property
violations other than what we can do by hoping people abide by C+D letters.
Which is a shame too, because I would very much like to see the foundation
more litigious in its defense of our licenses by pursuing sites that use our
contributors works without attribution, (as well as other violations of our
IPs).


-- 
Dan Rosenthal