Yes, thank you Aphaia for pointing out this. This is also my biggest fear. Someday in the future, Baidu would accuse Wikipedia for violating their copyright (at least in China). This is why this is a foundation matter, and not a matter of individual authors.
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Datum: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:18:03 +0900 Von: Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com An: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections
Even besides the general principle, I think it is better for us to be proactive toward copyright a/o trademark infringement in Main Land China, in regard of Japanese Anime and trademarks which have been infringed in Main Land China: some copies were registered or claimed to be the original even in the Main Land China. Consequently, the Japanese original was or have been condemned as infringements a/o violation of Chinese copy. There is no reason I think we'll welcome a similar situation.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
If we demanded those mirrors do a lot of work, on the other hand, we'd get a much lower success rate.
The three obvious options for giving attribution:
a) Do what everyone else does, and link to the Wikipedia article histories. Except that's meaningless for most of the readers - the vast majority of them who live in mainland China won't be able to follow the link, and the GFDL probably frowns a bit on a list of authors which you aren't allowed to see...
I'm inclined to favour this option. For the users of Baidu outside of the PRC there will of course be no problems. PRC residents will still get their usual results to indicate a blocked site. Each time it will be a reminder to them that something is wrong, and they will be more inclined to attempt access through alternate channels. We shouldn't underestimate the ability of the average PRC computer geek to circumvent blocks.
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