[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 01:53:40 UTC 2008

The thing is, Baidu does not host a Wikipedia mirror, per se. They
host their own Wiki encyclopedia, but many articles are taken directly
from WP with no credit given.

Mark

2008/6/11 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
> 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).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dan Rosenthal
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