[WikiEN-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books from Wikipedia
Jay Litwyn
brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Mon Aug 17 04:19:10 UTC 2009
<wjhonson at aol.com> wrote in message
news:8CBEAB907C57F0C-390-280C at WEBMAIL-DZ04.sysops.aol.com...
>
> You said:
>> The publisher seems to observe the copyright (even includes full edit
>> history) so legal action seems impossible.
>
> How can a book copy the full edit history without it being obvious that
> it's copied from Wikipedia?
> We do not require someone to say "copied from Wikipedia" on the title
> page by the way.
> But I'm unclear why you think there is no possible legal action?
> We have a license, and the license states that you must state certain
> things.
> Either they obey it, or they don't. Am I right?
Yup. That is why I am guessing this is a non-issue. If they did not run
their editorial concept past someone at Wikimedia, then they had one of
their own lawyers check it against our license. Renata St does not like
their price. Neither do I, and I do not see anything I can do about it other
than buy something else. She does not like the lack of prominence of
wikipedia's name on the face of the books. It was not a wikimedia-spawned
initiative. Forces are against printing wikipedia, and I am with them,
mainly because I would not know where to start with rules for selecting
articles, and I do not know anybody who does. So, she is an incidental and
frequent contributor to wikipedia's unofficial print edition. Maybe she
should turn that around and look at what she could do for the articles that
she did not write in the books, then personally ask if they will pay her for
doing it.
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