You do not plagiarize Wikipedia 
He who has never thrown a stone copied Wikipedia to Michel Houellebecq! Because the writer now dubbed the Goncourt was taken act of vulgar recopying Wikipedia in several passages of his recent success Map and the Territory . And him defend himself " Perrec do it better than me ", arguing that the reuse of raw material is a literary technique of writing like any other.
But Florent Gallaire does not think the young lawyer and decided to restore justice on his blog ... by publishing the book for free! The Net and shook Marie Krostrz on Rue 89 it is echoed: "Wikipedia transforms the novel into a free work. Florent Gallaire explains on his blog that License Creative Commons BY-SA , under which is placed Wikipedia , imposes two conditions of use to the public. In addition to having to quote the author of the article, the user must comply with the clause " share alike" "If you alter, transform, or build upon this work - the article-you have the right to distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. "
other words, the blogger, Houellebecq can pump Wikipedia, but it must then publish the resulting work under the Creative C ommon , which involves the dissemination of the novel freely available on the Net. "
But the blogger was right?
As explained section, the reasoning of this daring blogger claiming to be the digital law expert, is a bit fast: point of order raised by Florent Gallaire, "applies only to contributors to the site ;, "said Emmanuel Pierrat, Flammarion lawyer," but it does nothing to the personal work of an individual who has inspired articles in the encyclopedia. " The regulation clearly says in effect: "The re-users of your contribution can choose the license agreements to which they want to join "
And even then, how can we imagine that in the name of a dozen phrases from Wikipedia is can bring down an entire novel in a free way to share without the consent of its author? The coarse borrowing Houellebecq is more like a short quotation that governs law Article L122-5 paragraph 3-a) Code of intellectual property and requires the inclusion of the author and source. Thus, as any student at Sciences Po at the end of his essay, Mr. Houellebecq should have included at the end of the novel names of authors of articles viewed and URL links to them ... But when we have the Goncourt we can all afford!
