[Foundation-l] Copies of Wikipedia's articles found on Knol

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 17:41:37 UTC 2008


> Amazing how the Knol, hailed as a competitor to Wikipedia, has so quickly
> began stealing content from Wikipedia's contributors, faking the license
> terms, and essentially plagiarizing en masse.

To be fair, contributors to Knol have done that, not Knol itself.
Google have not done anything to encourage this kind of copyright
violation, as far as I know (they haven't have a chance to do anything
to stop it, but presumably will soon).



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