Case Study 6: Wikipedia

This educational report discusses clarifying intellectual property rights, and establishing data protection and processing best practices for free knowledge and open source software that powers Muellners Foundation’s mirror of the Wikipedia. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of project lifecycle governance.

Intellectual Property Name: Wikipedia, an encyclopaedia
License: Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

Legal Bodies Involved: Muellners Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation

Relevant Links:

Legal resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/12/07/wikimedia-foundation-calls-on-us-supreme-court-to-strike-laws-that-threaten-wikipedia/