Le 30/08/2022 à 17:47, The Cunctator a écrit :
I think the official WMF stance that it is functionally powerless is
the wrong one to take. WMF should be much more aggressive, even if
Google is a major donor to WMF.
Hello,
When someone or an organization reuse the Wikipedia content without out
attributions, they are breaching the license which literally ask: "You
must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author". Legally
speaking I don't think the foundation can sue since it hasn't any claim
on the content, the author has to do it. But it doesn't mean the
foundation is powerless, it can provides legal assistance to author and
it has a strong enough voice to relay a message from one of the
contributions. That is what I call "having a high karma".
Whenever I need assistance from a third party, I would open my request
with a line such as:
/"Hello, I am working for Wikimedia, the foundation behind
Wikipedia. May you <insert request>"./
Every single time I had a positive response and people were going above
and beyond to assist, not me, but the projects. It is extremely powerful.
If we became aggressive and helped sue every single misuse of the
licensed contents, the perceived message would certainly be that Wikis
content is unsafe to use since it exposes one to legal retaliations. I
am pretty sure the receivers would immediately remove all contents and
never look back.
I don't think being aggressive would achieve our goals, but we
definitely have all the powers to educate people and organizations on
the license and how to reuse the content.
Antoine "hashar" Musso
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