[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Wed Jun 11 23:38:54 UTC 2008

To some degree this is silly ... we enable mirrors and encourage them,
if they are legit and do the right thing under GFDL.

Perhaps honey is a better approach than vinegar.

"We are glad to see that you're mirroring our contributors' content,
but we're confused about why you haven't put in the history and
credits info as the GFDL license requires.  How can we work with you
to try and get your site properly compliant and set up as a proper
Wikipedia mirror?  Thanks!"

On the other hand, bad faith or extended refusal to cooperate or
respond would shift to a more antagonistic model...

-george william herbert

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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).
>
>
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