@Nick Cohglan: How would a publisher have to work out a deal with Wikimedia (the Wikimedia Foundation, I suppose) on works not copyrighted by Wikimedia?
Besides, this is not like a GPL infringement case - we're dealing with literary work here, which a French court is likely to treat differently than code.
I'm pointing out the obvious: what matters is not how commentators in this thread think, but how a French judge would react when faced with the claim that copying a few factual sentences from Wikipedia, even rewording them, would magically turn the whole Goncourt prize winner into a "free book". It seems highly implausible that the judge would agree with such a theory.
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not it's not like a GPL infringement case
Besides, this is not like a GPL infringement case - we're dealing with literary work here, which a French court is likely to treat differently than code.
what matters is that judges think
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