Wikimedia Foundation receives copyright infringement claim from Mormon Church
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Wikimedia Foundation receives copyright infringement claim from Mormon
Church
May 13, 2008 at 9:16 pm ·
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a copyright infringement claim
from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as
the Mormon Church. The infringement claim is in reference to a URL
used as a source in a Wikinews article about Mormon Church documents
leaked to the website Wikileaks, titled “Copy of handbook for leaders
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints obtained by
Wikinews”. The URL was originally cited as a link in the sources
subsection of the article. The Wikimedia Foundation is a donor-
supported non-profit organization which runs Wikipedia and Wikinews.
This is the first time that the Wikimedia Foundation has received a
copyright infringement claim regarding an article published by
Wikinews. [..]
[..] Wikileaks has received copyright infringement claims from
organizations including the Church of Scientology’s Religious
Technology Center and the Swiss Bank Julius Baer, and the Chinese
government attempts to censor every website with the word “wikileaks”
in the web page address. Bank Julius Baer sued Wikileaks after sending
cease and desist letters in January 2008 which cited the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act. As a result of the lawsuit, the bank
obtained an injunction preventing the site’s domain name registrar
from associating with Wikileaks, but this injunction was lifted in
March 2008 and Bank Julius Baer dropped the case.
As of May 13 Wikileaks had not taken down the material on the Church
Handbook of Instructions, and a second webpage at the site with a
different version of the material was also still available. In a
statement to Wikinews, a Wikileaks representative commented on the
material hosted at the site: “WikiLeaks will not remove the handbooks,
which are of substantial interest to current and former mormons.
WikiLeaks will remain a place were people from around the world can
safely reveal the truth.”
source
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 [..]