[Foundation-l] Knol: on the bright side of things...

[Florence Devouard]

I agree, you are an heretic.

Can someone bring in the oil and the feathers ?

Ant

David Goodman wrote:
> I am going to suggest the heretical proposition that we have
> everything to gain by changing our licensing so export to them under
> their present policies (or some attainable modification of them) is
> interpreted as being within our license, even if it allows the
> creation of unfree derivatives, and accepts a link to a Wikipedia
> article as adequate author designation for previously contributed
> content.  (I am aware of the difficulties in making the transition)
> 
> The principle I suggest is that the increase in freely accessible
> content is more important that the principle of libre
> publication--that we are more likely to add to the existing structure
> of publication in the world than to replace it.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Knol allow us to track massive copyright violations.
>>
>>
>> Example:
>> http://knol.google.com/k/knol/system/knol/pages/Search?nodeId=32qv6k5e4j8yx.0#
>>
>> This author copied a collection of french speaking wikipedia articles.
>> All are taggued cc by 3.0.
>>
>> Now, if you go to this one for example:
>> http://knol.google.com/k/maxime-seligman/thalassothrapie/32qv6k5e4j8yx/13#
>>
>> On the right hand side, you'll see
>>
>> Similar Content on the Web
>>
>> spa.fr 100%
>> distanteyes.net 100%
>> wikipedia.org 100%
>>
>> So, I clicked on distanteyes...
>> http://distanteyes.net/la-thalassotherapie.html?00ae24bc0e7eeb85a75e1e95743234ab=5915bde6e3eed210f82d1ea04d09e61c
>>
>> 100% copied from Wikipedia. No licence, no mention of Wikipedia, no link.
>>
>> And I clicked on spa.fr
>> http://www.spa.fr/la%20balneotherapie%20et%20la%20thalassotherapie.php
>> Copyright (c) 2007 La maison du spa
>>
>>
>> Ant
>>
>>
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