[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

[David Goodman]

do they copy as a mirror would, and then add articles of their own, or
do they use the text as part of articles with additions & subtractions
of their own?

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/12/08, Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Ciao Henning [[user:h-stt]]
>>
>>
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>
>
> Free knowledge does not mean that the information itself is unrestricted,
> nor does it mean that the authors who make information free waive all of
> their rights. We fundamentally require attribution to our authors under our
> license. If Baidupedia is not respecting that, and are not in
> compliance with the other terms of the GFDL, then it is very difficult to
> say that they are working for the freedom of knowledge. Copyright
> infringement != free knowledge. It == theft. By enforcing that other
> websites respect the terms of the licenses our works are published under, we
> are actually furthering free knowledge by giving our contributors some
> assurances that their work will be protected and not abused. I know that I,
> for one, would have second thoughts about some of my contributions if I knew
> that it would be taken by another person and used under their name. That's
> not free dissemination, its theft.
>
> -Dan
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