Ting Chen wrote:
In this case it is not just a hobby website take our
content for his small website. It is a company who purposefully take large quantity of
contents from our projects and claim it to be theirs. The quantity of authors that is in
this case breached is enomous. It is the duty of the foundation to protect the interest of
our community.
Baidu is also sued by the music industry in America because of mp3 issues.
That would be a strange ally!
In this case an individual do not have the resource to
make the lawsuite, and for an individual from China or Taiwan, whose right is breached, it
is almost impossible. If the foundation don't care this matter, it is a shame.
I have long felt that the difficulties when our collective copyrights
are breached would be greater than any problem we would face in trying
to abide by the rights of others. We have any number of layers to
protect us from legal liabilities from copyvios, but there is very
little effort to deal with being on the other side of the dispute. This
is definitely a point that I would raise before the Board if elected.
Ec