[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Dan Rosenthal wrote:

> But that's exactly what Baidupedia has done. The assurances to every single
> person who has ever contributed to a WMF project are undermined as long as
> Baidupedia uses our content while claiming it as their own, under copyright.
> It is not copying. Copying would be merely them reusing the content. It's
> their claim that THEY were the authors, that it belongs to them, that it is
> something they could potentially sue you over. That is the theft; the theft
> of the authorship and ownership rights of the Wikipedian who wrote the
> content. It is fundamentally unacceptable that we support that.

I may be grossly misreading what you just wrote above, or just not
being well enough informed about all the statements about our
licencing system on-wiki, but just to clarify; what precise
"assurances" are you talking about?

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen