[WikiEN-l] Chinese start caring about copyright

[Carcharoth]

What's the context here for Wikipedia?

Carcharoth

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/technology/internet/31google.html
> "Two Chinese writers’ groups claim that Google has scanned Chinese
> works into an electronic database in violation of international
> copyright standards. The organizations are urging China’s authors to
> step forward and defend their rights.
>
> “Google has seriously violated the copyrights of Chinese authors. That
> is an undeniable fact,” Chen Qirong, a spokesman for the China
> Writers’ Association, said by telephone. The group says it represents
> nearly 9,000 writers."
>
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/afc1cfda-d128-11de-b591-00144feabdc0.html
> "Under the new settlement, works will only be included in the
> ambitious digital project if they have been registered in the US, or
> come from the UK, Australia and Canada – countries which have
> “contributed the largest number of English-language works to American
> libraries,” according to the parties to the settlement. The
> similarities in their legal systems and the structure of their
> publishing industries made it appropriate for these countries to be
> included, according to the backers of the settlement.
>
> The changes will mean that 95 per cent of all foreign works will no
> longer be included in Google’s digital book archive, said Richard
> Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers."
>
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidupedia#Copyright and
> http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2007/gb20071113_725400.htm
> in case anyone has forgotten.)
>
> --
> gwern
>
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