[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Thu Jun 12 16:49:04 UTC 2008

2008/6/12 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net>:

> Titan Deng wrote:
> > We Chinese Wikipedians are now collecting Baidupedia articles which were
> > copied from Chinese Wikipedia.
>
> What is all that copyright, lawyer, enforcement, loose face stuff about?
>
> Last time I checked, Wikipedia was about disseminating free knowledge.
> Unfortunately the projects are blocked by the Chinese government, so
> people of the peoples republic have no access to our content, not the
> the parts that are deemed dangerous by the government, not to the other
> parts. Now someone takes at least some of the uncontroversial content
> and makes it available by copying into Baidu.
>
No, it's not true. If you can read the list (the link I gave), those
articles are not controversial articles, not sensitive to the Chinese
government at all. Baidupedia has political censorship, and their staff
review and filter all materials which might be regarded as sensitive to
Chinese government.

>
> Of course it would be nice if they would acknowledge the license and
> give proper attribution. But they can't - Wikipedia is banned and they
> can't name this source.
>
The ban is not relative to their copyright violation. Wikipedia is not
prohibited to mention. The Great Fire Wall blocks the website with its url (
wikipedia.org).
At least, according to GFDL, they can still mention 5 main authors instead
of mentioning Wikipedia.


> But as our mission is to distribute our knowledge, I believe this is the
> second best way to distribute our articles, and the best available until
> the forces that are open up the Great Firewall.
>
Our mission is distributing free knowledge, but what Baidu does is on the
contrary way. The claim those articles "copyrighted" (as you can see the
bottom part of every page of those articles  with a little (C)2008 Baidu).

Regards,
Titan

>
> Ciao Henning [[user:h-stt]]
>
>
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