> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > wrote: >> My thought was for the Foundation to approach Amazon regarding carrying >> listings of such books which seriously represent their content. as this >> one does. Such a book approaches fraud. >> > > Agreed. There is no *obligation* for Amazon to distribute netscrapings. > Though > I do agree also that repeated "caveat emptor" messages disseminated as > broadly > as posible (maybe a mantra in interviews given by Foundation actors to > major > media?) may be the most efficacioius and with least of a downsde. People > out > there don't like litigitous whiners. > > Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people > more > savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally > got some > dead tree stuff out there with the WMF trademark on them for real. > > -- > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] >
I certainly wouldn't want to do something that would shut down production or discourage sale of books derived from Wikipedia. I can imagine some pretty cool books. Yes, suing is a non-starter. Any manner of modification is permissible under our licenses. The problem is that the negative decision of the marketplace will affect all material derived from Wikipedia, even Wikipedia itself. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
