[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia featured in German weekly magazine

David Friedland david at nohat.net
Tue Mar 2 22:27:14 UTC 2004


Schneelocke wrote:

>>Unfortunately, there's no online version of the article available; I'll can
>>try to do a rough translation for meta in the next week if anyone's
>>interested, though.
> 
> 
> As a follow-up - as a couple of people were kind enough to point out,
> providing a translation of the article would likely be a violation of German
> copyright law. I'm not sure myself (IANAL), but I don't want to take any
> chances, so please consider my offer to be void. 
> 
> Darn, I really hate copyright (most of the time, at least).
>  

I'm sure, however, that is is perfectly legal to give a 
paragraph-by-paragraph summary, in English, of what the article says.

- David




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