On 6/3/06, Selina . <wikipediareview(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 31/05/06, Jean-Baptiste Soufron
<jbsoufron(a)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
Hoi,
Please tell me how you arrive at your conclusion. What do you consider
the costs, how did you quantify them. What are the expected benefits,
are they economical, political or of another nature, how did you
quantify them. How did you compare the one with the other and again how
did you come to this conclusion..
PS Did you consider the long term costs of doing nothing ?
Thanks,
GerardM