Google and the user entered into a completely different contract by agreeing to operate on freely licensed content.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Brian<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > I do not see your argument... There is a contract between Google and > the user, granting Google certain rights. Why does the fact that the > user (and/or Google) intends to use the material for something else > void this contract? > > -- > André Engels, [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > 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
