[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Andre Engels wrote:
>> 2008/6/11 Ting Chen <Wing.Philopp at gmx.de>:
>>
>>> Baidupedia is an issue since it came to live. We have tried many times to contact them for this issue.
>>>
>>> It is not an issue of the individuals, but indeed a foundation issue, because Baidupedia is in a very big scope copyviolating and they don't care, and not only zh-wp is a victim of them.
>>>
>> It is an issue of the individuals, because they are the ones whose
>> rights have been breached.
>>
>>
>>
> Indeed.  That is one of the big failings of our current licensing
> scheme.  Any one individual's contributions may not be worth the bother
> of a copyright infringement suit, which is always more difficult for the
> plaintiff since he has the burden of proof.  When articles have multiple
> authors the defendant can probably pick the claim apart by pointing out
> that particular sentences were written by persons other than the plaintiff.
>
> Having the licence include an appointment of WMF as a non-exclusive
> agent for the purpose of prosecuting violations could give WMF standing
> to go after the most egregious violators.

I think that I understand what Ting wants to say: It is copyvio of the
scale which threats to the whole project. Because of that WMF should
find some way how to act. Not in the sense of authorship, but in the
sense of protecting the project. I don't know how, maybe Mike has some
answer :)