[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 00:26:10 UTC 2008

One could make an argument that the Foundation has a compilation
copyright on the contents of the encyclopedias, if one wanted to
launch some legal efforts based on the existing content before we get
a more explicit authorized-agent license in the legalese associated
with making a contribution.

Someone might fight back on that point, and might conceivably win, but
we'd probably make it to trial on that point.  Which is probably far
enough.

-george

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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