Copyright Law

Copy knol

By Zohar Efroni

There is a guy by the name of Meir Shraga. I did not know him until today, but now I can even see his picture smiling at me from the knol he has published for the entry ?Israel?. Mr. Shraga shamelessly copy-pasted the English Wikipedia entry on Israel. What cough my eye was the fact that he does not seem to give Wikipedia any credit (thereby probably violating the GFDL license terms), and since chutzpa knows no borders, he published his ?piece? under a Creative Commons Attribution license. If there is anything that copyright law should curtail, it is this kind of behavior. Or even better, it seems that Mr. Shraga has succeeded very quickly to ruin his authorial reputation for good.

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Full post as published by Zohar Efroni’s blog on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).