[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 00:10:09 UTC 2008

2008/6/11 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>:

> IANAL, but how exactly can they sue them if they don't own the copyright
> (resp. patent rights or whatever) to the software?
> Are you suggesting that the WMF takes 'mandates' from individual WM
> contributors to sue on behalf of them?

It's something I have thought about more than once - making some kind
of contract between me and the WMF, granting them rights to replublish
the material  I created for the various projects, and authorizing them
to take action against copyright infringement on them on my behalf.

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