On 6/3/06, Selina . wikipediareview@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/05/06, Jean-Baptiste Soufron jbsoufron@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think it would be wise for the foundation to take any action that would not be correctly backed up by a chinese law firm explaining us what we can do, and what we cannot do. As much from a legal point of view, than from a PR or a political one.
Jean-Baptiste Soufron
Something at least needs to be done, turning a blind eye to it will only make things worse.
-Selina
There are thousands of people whose copyrights are allegedly being infringed. Any one of you is free to hire a lawyer and start a lawsuit. In fact, you're perfectly free to get together and talk about how you can effectively combine resources to do so. It'd be fine with me if someone sets up a mailing list or website and then sends a message here redirecting anyone interested to it.
But I don't think it's worth the Wikimedia Foundation spending its time or money on, from a cost/benefit analysis. In fact, I think it's questionable whether or not it would be beneficial at all to sue Baidu over this. The only thing I see them doing *really* harmful is that they're censoring content, and this is perfectly legal under the terms of the GFDL anyway (I suppose Wikipedia could add an invariant section ranting about Chinese censorship, but it's not going to happen).
Anthony