[Wikipedia] Updated 'Terms of Use' Effective from 25th May

Wikipedia has updated the terms of use effective from 25th May, which is mostly related to legal coverage of content usage.

Wikipedia, the One-stop website for most of the queries ranging from a tiny cell to the universe has a notice on top of the site claiming the 'Terms of use' (ToU) is changing tomorrow. Even though I am a regular user of Wikipedia, was never worried to read their 'ToU'. However this noticed lead me to compare the older with the new version.

Most noticeable change is the structure; new version is more organized under different sub-sections which makes it easier for us to pick the required information rather than reading the whole. A summary is provided at the start as "a human-readable summary of the Terms of Use" which is quite handy.

One key point to note is the legal bindings that is added with details and the emphasis is more towards the legal information related to American laws; this make sense since the Wikipedia foundation resides in America.

See below extraction...
If you seek to file a legal claim against us, you agree to file and resolve it exclusively in a state or federal court located in San Francisco County, California. You also agree that the laws of the State of California and, to the extent applicable, the laws of the United States of America will govern these Terms of Use, as well as any legal claim that might arise between you and us (without reference to conflict of laws principles). You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, the courts located in San Francisco County, California, in any legal action or proceeding relating to us or these Terms of Use.

Another change is the 'licensing mechanism' itself. Wikipedia has clearly mentioned that the content is from the community, so the writers must grant the license for free distribution and reuse, but with the attribution in place. Availability of 'GNU Free Documentation License' only will not be sufficient under this new ToU.

Even though we are not quite clear about the effects from these updates in ToU for us as Wikipedia readers; someone may feel that Wikimedia Foundation has tried to avoid most of the legal issues that they may face in future (if there are any).

COMMENTS

BLOGGER: 4
Loading...

Read More...

Name

About,2,Adsense,3,Ant,1,Apache,3,Axis,3,Blogger,1,Books,1,CentOS,2,Chrome,2,CSS,2,Database,3,Earn Online,3,Eclipse,10,Facebook,1,Firefox,10,Gmail,4,GNU/Linux,9,Google,26,GWT,8,Hardware,2,IE,5,Interesting,15,Internet,14,Java,49,Javascript,7,JBoss,1,Jenkins,1,Log4j,2,Me,6,Microsoft,2,Miscellaneous,1,News,11,Opinion,10,OSGi,1,PHP,1,Productivity,3,Programming,36,Puzzle,3,Security,4,Software,41,Sports,9,Spring,2,Story,6,Subversion,3,TDD,4,Tech,2,Tips,1,Tomcat,6,Tutorial,13,Ubuntu,4,Web application,14,Web Design,2,Web services,3,Windows,10,Yahoo,1,Zip,2,
ltr
item
Digizol: [Wikipedia] Updated 'Terms of Use' Effective from 25th May
[Wikipedia] Updated 'Terms of Use' Effective from 25th May
Wikipedia has updated the terms of use effective from 25th May, which is mostly related to legal coverage of content usage.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1jLvsGyRHv3XFXPBzhJpXu41P3Br1V58XU-jV9bdTkP_dBi0Rd9kEG2Tu6Kud_3vBnfB7Sm6y1D86AtLJWiMnyN_VrJ1g6vusncMo_iQGhck9aYUupCpU3RkPm2HOKhMTFO8hA/s1600/wikipedia+bar-code+www.digizol.com.png
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1jLvsGyRHv3XFXPBzhJpXu41P3Br1V58XU-jV9bdTkP_dBi0Rd9kEG2Tu6Kud_3vBnfB7Sm6y1D86AtLJWiMnyN_VrJ1g6vusncMo_iQGhck9aYUupCpU3RkPm2HOKhMTFO8hA/s72-c/wikipedia+bar-code+www.digizol.com.png
Digizol
https://www.digizol.com/2012/05/wikipedia-updated-terms-of-use-255.html
https://www.digizol.com/
https://www.digizol.com/
https://www.digizol.com/2012/05/wikipedia-updated-terms-of-use-255.html
true
7440473
UTF-8
Loaded All Posts Not found any posts VIEW ALL Readmore Reply Cancel reply Delete By Home PAGES POSTS View All RECOMMENDED FOR YOU LABEL ARCHIVE SEARCH ALL POSTS Not found any post match with your request Back Home Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat January February March April May June July August September October November December Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec just now 1 minute ago $$1$$ minutes ago 1 hour ago $$1$$ hours ago Yesterday $$1$$ days ago $$1$$ weeks ago more than 5 weeks ago Followers Follow THIS CONTENT IS PREMIUM Please share to unlock Copy All Code Select All Code All codes were copied to your clipboard Can not copy the codes / texts, please press [CTRL]+[C] (or CMD+C with Mac) to copy