On 29/05/06, SCO Estmort <eudaimonic.leftist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any way we can take action against Baidu
Baike? Surely there is
some legal means of recourse, because they apparently are taking things from
the Chinese Wikipedia wholesale, with utter copyright violations. We have to
deal with copyright issues, I don't see why we should idly stand by and let
ourselves get trampled over with. Since we have been sending cease and
desist notices to small mirrors now, surely this is the ripe target, as
Baidu Baike is state-sponsored by the People's Republic of China.
Call me cynical and all, but if you want to find a ripe legal target,
perhaps picking one that won't have its legal bills paid by a
*country* would be a good start. (Let's leave aside the interesting
legal question of whether or not the Foundation has legal standing to
sue.)
We can't fight China; it'd waste our time and they wouldn't even
notice. We're not magically endowed crusaders for truth and justice;
we're writers. Ripe targets are all well and good, but picking a fight
we can win should come before picking a fight that sounds good.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk