At 08:47 AM 11/15/03 -0500, Alex756 wrote:
"Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com said: Arvind Narayanan wrote:
The site http://www.chessandbeyond.com has copied several articles from Wikipedia. There's nothing about wikipedia on those pages, and at the bottom there is the statement
Copyright © 2003 Chess And Beyond ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
This really pisses me off and is a very clear violation of the GNU FDL. They not only failed to credit the Wikipedia article as the source but then they try to pretend that they own the copyright! This is legally and morally wrong.
Since you are actually one of the authors you are on very good footing to complain.
First, list the website at: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sites_that_use_Wikipedia_for_content...
Then write them a letter: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Standard_GFDL_violation_letter
If they stonewall you after a letter and a follow-up letter, then come back to the list and we will discuss what to do next.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Good plan to start but wouldn't it be appropriate to send their ISP a DCMA art 512 takedown request in a few days?
NO.
Two reasons. First, we should give them a reasonable time to answer us, rather than assuming the worst. Two, the DCMA is designed to prevent the spread and sharing of material, and is antithetical to what we're doing. We should use it only as a last resort, not by reflex.