Agree that they could shake the tree a bit. I hope you will encourage them to do that if you make it to the board. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Andy Mabbett [mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk] Sent: 30 August 2022 14:39 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Cc: F. Xavier Dengra i Grau Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license?
On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 10:18, Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net wrote:
If I understand the CC-by-sa licence correctly, Wikipedia and WMF
themselves do not
own the copyright, it is owned by the contributors who created the text.
They can take
this up with Google,
All of the above is true.
the WMF cannot
That is not true. The WMF cannot sue Google as a copyright holder. However, there is nothing stopping WM from raising the issue with Google, and gently reminding them of their obligations. Indeed, that would probably be more effective than individual editors doing so.