I used to work for cha cha... Or at least, I trained their staff at my old job. They're a text message question answering service based in the us but using Philippine staff. On Feb 8, 2013 1:48 PM, "Daniel R. Tobias" <d...@tobias.name> wrote:
> I just ran into this Twitter account: > > https://twitter.com/Wikipedia411 > > It has "Wikipedia" as part of its username/URL, and uses > "Wikipedia.org" as its account name (displayed at the top of its > tweets). However, the description on its account page says "Facts > brought to you daily. Not affiliated with Wikipedia, aggregate > content generator." > > Where copyright is concerned, it would probably be in violation of > the license of Wikipedia if it used more than fair-use amounts of > Wikipedia text, since there's reference to credits or license, but if > they just paraphrase facts derived from Wikipedia (as they seem to be > doing, and just about the only way to get anything from Wikipedia > into 140 characters anyway) they're probably in the clear there since > facts are not copyrightable (only the expression of them). > > However, it is trademark law they are most clearly afoul of; despite > their disclaimer, they're using an account name that seems to imply > that they represent Wikipedia (you have to pull up their profile page > to find out they're not official, so lots of people who see retweeted > tweets from them will think they're coming from Wikipedia), and they > also use Wikipedia's logo as their icon. > > While most of their tweets have facts that presumably came from > Wikipedia, the stream is peppered with tweets with "teaser" text and > a link, which when followed doesn't go to Wikipedia but to some site > called ChaCha (the link destination, as usual on Twitter, is > obfuscated by the use of link-shorteners). That site has the typical > annoying style of many modern websites of presenting its content in > "slideshow" style with bite-size chunks of content that are "1 of 10" > and you have to keep following "Next" links to get to the rest of the > feature, and if you don't use AdBlock Plus they're all surrounded by > annoying ads, some of which blast sound at you, and try to spawn > popups and the like. > > -- > == Dan == > Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ > Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ > Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
