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Can You Legally Sell Wikipedia Content (Like in an eBook, for Example)?

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Posted by amabaie under Legal
From http://www.thebacklight.com 4477 days ago
Made Hot by: stella77 on February 9, 2012 6:23 am

This is something I’ve been wondering about for a while: Can you take Wikipedia content, repackage it, and sell it (in ebook form, for example)? Is that legal? I did some digging and here’s what I found out.

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Written by staciatauscher
4468 days ago

Well i found this information is good and helpful for me..

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Written by clickfire
4477 days ago

I'm not touching this one :)

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Written by amabaie
4477 days ago

Just for the record, I think this is nuts. But it is a really well-done article and it is certainly useful for any business that wants to use information from Wikipedia or similar websites in their communications materials.

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