Hi,

today I was informed that the German subsidiary of AFP (Agence France Presse), a news agency seems to have taken a significant amount of text about the Amish from de.wikipedia.org.

In a phone call, the AFP office confirmed that the text was from Wikipedia and stated that this was against "AFP policy" because "wikipedia is not a citable source". They refuse to retract or ammend the story with proper attribution for Wikipedia and the license.

On the other hand, AFP sued Google News in 2005 because in AFP's point of view, Google was violating their copyright.

A short report about this event from today can be found (in German) at http://mathias-schindler.de/index.php/2006/10/03/einladung-zum-textvergleich....

I will update or correct anything there. Feel free to translate the text or refer to it.

Mathias