2017-06-05 19:32 GMT+03:00 The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com:
I've been a bit out of the loop on this for a while, so please be kind to the oldbie - what's current Wikimedia policy on adaptive reuse of Wikipedia content into non-free publications?
E.g. Graphiq https://www.graphiq.com/terms-and-conditions http://colleges.startclass.com/l/1929/Harvard-University
and Google https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ https://www.google.com/search?q=harvard+university
I recognize that Google gives Wikimedia a lot of money, even if the foundation isn't very transparent about that, but I'd think that doesn't free the company from following CC BY-SA.
I think you're bang on one of the main topics of the copyright reform discussion currently happening in Europe - should people and companies be allowed to link and/or display a small part of a copyrighted work? I haven't followed the issue in the last few months, but the latest proposals from the Commission basically meant no more links or excerpts (experts: please bear this oversimplification, I know the wording is not exactly this).
AFAIK our public policy team has the opposite position - that such reuse should be permitted. Remember, we're also content consumers, not just content producers, so such legislation would also hit us hard.
If you want to know more about these debates, a good place to start would be the public policy portal [1]. Also check out the wiki page [2] and the mailing list [3].
Regards, Strainu
[1] https://policy.wikimedia.org/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_policy [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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