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.