In the absence of a specific argument against my argument, my argument holds - Google imports the data into their own service and there is no contradiction.
Suppose however that my argument did not hold - that when Google download's data to their own servers on behalf of a user this section of the ToS becomes a legally binding contract between Google and the user. Is there a contradiction between the ToS and Wikipedia's copyright policy? On the one hand we have Google's ToS which states that when a user imports data they grant Google rights that, legally, the user cannot grant. On the other hand Google has clearly created a service that is meant to assist Wikipedian's in translating articles from one language to another so that the data might be imported back into Wikipedia. The very existence of such a service, created for the express purpose of operating on GFDL/CC-BY-SA text, automatically voids the statement in the ToS because it is nonsensical. If Google were to try to make a legal claim on the content, which they would not, they would have no legal basis on which to do so. Regardless, I started this thread as a PSA. As another user pointed out, no one would ever know if someone used Google Translate to translate a Wikipedia article, so the whole conversation is largely pointless. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:03 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/9 Brian <[email protected]>: > > I don't agree with this interpretation. Google provides an interface > whereby > > the user enters the URL to a Wikipedia article and Google imports the > text > > into their own service. The user does no importing. > > I think the odds of you successfully arguing that that does not fall > under submitting are pretty much zilch. In any case there are likely > other issues but that is just the most straightforward one. > > > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
