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[Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance?
Barbara Page, a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar and Wikipedian in Residence at
the University of Pittsburgh, has written a blog post[1] for Wikipediocracy
about how the Amazon Echo's Alexa assistant reads out Wikipedia articles in
response to queries. This includes queries that do not specifically ask for
Wikipedia information.

What's the deal with the CC licence here?

To quote from the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Licence identified at the bottom of each English Wikipedia page,


If You Distribute, or Publicly Perform the Work or any Adaptations or
Collections, *You must,* unless a request has been made pursuant to Section
4(a), *keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and provide,
reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing: (i) the name of the
Original Author (or pseudonym, if applicable) if supplied, and/or if the
Original Author and/or Licensor designate another party or parties (e.g., a
sponsor institute, publishing entity, journal) for attribution
("Attribution Parties") in Licensor's copyright notice, terms of service or
by other reasonable means, the name of such party or parties; (ii) the
title of the Work if supplied; (iii) to the extent reasonably practicable,
the URI, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work,
unless such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing
information for the Work*; and (iv) , consistent with Section 3(b), in the
case of an Adaptation, a credit identifying the use of the Work in the
Adaptation (e.g., "French translation of the Work by Original Author," or
"Screenplay based on original Work by Original Author").


Some similar services preface their Wikipedia readings with "According to
Wikipedia, ..." This is at least a minimum amount of attribution. While I
am not a legal expert, I guess it could be construed as an attempt to
comply with the "reasonable to the medium or means" passage above. It also
tells the user where the information comes from, which is useful from the
standpoint of transparency.

But the Amazon Echo appears to include no attribution whatsoever when
providing Wikipedia-based answers. On the face of it, this would seem to
violate the terms of the Creative Commons licence (as well as obscuring the
origin of the information provided). Am I missing something?

Has this ever been the subject of discussions, agreements or understandings
between Amazon and WMF?

Best,
Andreas

[1] http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
This is an excellent point. Yes Amazon should definitely state that what
they are reading is from Wikipedia.

James

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:

> Barbara Page, a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar and Wikipedian in Residence at
> the University of Pittsburgh, has written a blog post[1] for Wikipediocracy
> about how the Amazon Echo's Alexa assistant reads out Wikipedia articles in
> response to queries. This includes queries that do not specifically ask for
> Wikipedia information.
>
> What's the deal with the CC licence here?
>
> To quote from the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
> Licence identified at the bottom of each English Wikipedia page,
>
>
> If You Distribute, or Publicly Perform the Work or any Adaptations or
> Collections, *You must,* unless a request has been made pursuant to Section
> 4(a), *keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and provide,
> reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing: (i) the name of the
> Original Author (or pseudonym, if applicable) if supplied, and/or if the
> Original Author and/or Licensor designate another party or parties (e.g., a
> sponsor institute, publishing entity, journal) for attribution
> ("Attribution Parties") in Licensor's copyright notice, terms of service or
> by other reasonable means, the name of such party or parties; (ii) the
> title of the Work if supplied; (iii) to the extent reasonably practicable,
> the URI, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work,
> unless such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing
> information for the Work*; and (iv) , consistent with Section 3(b), in the
> case of an Adaptation, a credit identifying the use of the Work in the
> Adaptation (e.g., "French translation of the Work by Original Author," or
> "Screenplay based on original Work by Original Author").
>
>
> Some similar services preface their Wikipedia readings with "According to
> Wikipedia, ..." This is at least a minimum amount of attribution. While I
> am not a legal expert, I guess it could be construed as an attempt to
> comply with the "reasonable to the medium or means" passage above. It also
> tells the user where the information comes from, which is useful from the
> standpoint of transparency.
>
> But the Amazon Echo appears to include no attribution whatsoever when
> providing Wikipedia-based answers. On the face of it, this would seem to
> violate the terms of the Creative Commons licence (as well as obscuring the
> origin of the information provided). Am I missing something?
>
> Has this ever been the subject of discussions, agreements or understandings
> between Amazon and WMF?
>
> Best,
> Andreas
>
> [1] http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Maybe some fact checking before getting all upset would be a good idea?

The blog post is a good story, but doesn't actually reflect how Alexa
works wrt searching WIkipedia (I just quickly reconfigured one of mine
to US English just to verify).

Simon
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Simon, could you clarify?

Can you configure the device to give attribution?

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
>
> Maybe some fact checking before getting all upset would be a good idea?
>
> The blog post is a good story, but doesn't actually reflect how Alexa
> works wrt searching WIkipedia (I just quickly reconfigured one of mine
> to US English just to verify).
>
> Simon
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
You need to explicitly ask for a Wikipedia article to get one (and it
ends reading the summary with "More from wikipedia?" or something along
such lines). That kind of renders the attribution issue moot.

If you don't explicitly ask for Wikipedia it will search with bing and
simply read the result of that (which in general doesn't really work),
which may naturally contain information from WP, but not curated by Amazon.

I just jumped on this because I was reading one of comparative tests
between the Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon voice controlled
assistant products a couple of days back, and one of the not so good
sides of Alexa was answering general knowledge questions, which it
competitors get around by using WP automatically. This matches with my
experience of the device (in German you need to install a skill with a
rather cumbersome UI to get direct access to WP so it is even worse in
the ease of access to WP department).

Simon


Am 27.07.2017 um 13:26 schrieb John Mark Vandenberg:
> Simon, could you clarify?
>
> Can you configure the device to give attribution?
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
>> Maybe some fact checking before getting all upset would be a good idea?
>>
>> The blog post is a good story, but doesn't actually reflect how Alexa
>> works wrt searching WIkipedia (I just quickly reconfigured one of mine
>> to US English just to verify).
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Simon,

If you look at the comments under Barbara's piece, Greg linked to this
YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZurOYgQLT44

I had a look at that video before posting here. (I think it's kind of a
daft video, but it does a perfectly good job of demonstrating how the Echo
works.)

In this video, the lady asks at the beginning, "Alexa, who is Edward
Snowden?"

The response reflects the lead sentence of the Wikipedia article, such as
it was at the time.

At 0:30 in the video, she asks "Alexa, who is the FBI?" Again, Alexa
responds with the lead sentence of Wikipedia's FBI article as it was at the
time.

So she did not explicitly ask for the Wikipedia article, and yet got
Wikipedia content. And I wonder, if she had said "Tell me more", would she
have gotten more from Wikipedia at that point?

You say that Alexa reportedly gets some of this from Bing. But even if
that's the case, how does it make a difference? To me it seems rather like
Flickrwashing (Bingwashing?).

The end result is that the chain of attribution is broken and the content
is treated as though it were public domain rather than published under a
Creative Commons licence.

Andreas







On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:

> You need to explicitly ask for a Wikipedia article to get one (and it
> ends reading the summary with "More from wikipedia?" or something along
> such lines). That kind of renders the attribution issue moot.
>
> If you don't explicitly ask for Wikipedia it will search with bing and
> simply read the result of that (which in general doesn't really work),
> which may naturally contain information from WP, but not curated by Amazon.
>
> I just jumped on this because I was reading one of comparative tests
> between the Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon voice controlled
> assistant products a couple of days back, and one of the not so good
> sides of Alexa was answering general knowledge questions, which it
> competitors get around by using WP automatically. This matches with my
> experience of the device (in German you need to install a skill with a
> rather cumbersome UI to get direct access to WP so it is even worse in
> the ease of access to WP department).
>
> Simon
>
>
> Am 27.07.2017 um 13:26 schrieb John Mark Vandenberg:
> > Simon, could you clarify?
> >
> > Can you configure the device to give attribution?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
> >> Maybe some fact checking before getting all upset would be a good idea?
> >>
> >> The blog post is a good story, but doesn't actually reflect how Alexa
> >> works wrt searching WIkipedia (I just quickly reconfigured one of mine
> >> to US English just to verify).
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Hi,

On 27/07/2017 14:36, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> If you look at the comments under Barbara's piece, Greg linked to this
> YouTube video:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZurOYgQLT44

since I don't own an Amazon Echo, I will have to rely on the video.

> I had a look at that video before posting here. (I think it's kind of a
> daft video, but it does a perfectly good job of demonstrating how the Echo
> works.)
>
> In this video, the lady asks at the beginning, "Alexa, who is Edward
> Snowden?"
>
> The response reflects the lead sentence of the Wikipedia article, such as
> it was at the time.
>
> At 0:30 in the video, she asks "Alexa, who is the FBI?" Again, Alexa
> responds with the lead sentence of Wikipedia's FBI article as it was at the
> time.

The video was posted on March 9th, 2017.

This is the article about Edward Snowden as of March 6th, 2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&oldid=768899605

and this is the article about FBI as of March 7th,2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation&oldid=769027291

The response about Edward Snowden is not verbatim (I had a look also at
some of the previous revisions, and the incipit did not change). It is
very similar for sure and I can see some way to automatically get from
the Wikipedia article incipt to the sentence spoken by Alexa. But at
this point if you rephrase a sentence and use facts I don't think you
are infringing copyright. It could be akin to close paraphrasing[1], but
the quantity of text is limited.

The response about FBI instead is verbatim.

In both cases, they may be within the realm of the "right to quote"[2]
(I am not sure this concept exists in US law per se) or "fair use".

> You say that Alexa reportedly gets some of this from Bing. But even if
> that's the case, how does it make a difference? To me it seems rather like
> Flickrwashing (Bingwashing?).

It may totally make a difference. I am not a lawyer, but I think the
question about the copyright status of search snippets and indexes for
search engines has already been addressed by jurisprudence.

Simply put, the amount of text used changes the situation from "right to
quote"/"fair use" to "derivative work".

Furthermore, to correctly cite Wikipedia, if snippets would not be
considered under fair use/right to quote, they would need to also cite
the license.

In this regard, compare the difference - http://imgur.com/gallery/3FQZS
- between the snippets (both from Google and Bing), which do not have a
license indication and the extensive portion of text which is displayed
in the box in Bing which correctly indicates both the link to the
original work and the license. Interestingly, in the case of the FBI,
the box in Bing has less text and no indication of the license. It may
be that they automatically decide that if they are going to show more
than N words/characters then they do not treat the text as a quotation
but as a derivative work and so they show the license.

I tried with another couple searches and this behavior seems
consistent. If they shw a short chunk of text (~ 1 sentence), they do
not provide the source and link to the license. If they show a big chunk
of text (with a "+" sign) they do.

The Wikimedia Foundation could ask for a clarification to Amazon, but I
suspect that the answer would not differ very much from above.

Cristian

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_quote

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
We want these devices to read from Wikipedia. We just want attribution as
appropriate. If they are already attributing when they go beyond fair use
than all is good.

J

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Cristian Consonni <cristian@balist.es>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 27/07/2017 14:36, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> > If you look at the comments under Barbara's piece, Greg linked to this
> > YouTube video:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZurOYgQLT44
>
> since I don't own an Amazon Echo, I will have to rely on the video.
>
> > I had a look at that video before posting here. (I think it's kind of a
> > daft video, but it does a perfectly good job of demonstrating how the
> Echo
> > works.)
> >
> > In this video, the lady asks at the beginning, "Alexa, who is Edward
> > Snowden?"
> >
> > The response reflects the lead sentence of the Wikipedia article, such as
> > it was at the time.
> >
> > At 0:30 in the video, she asks "Alexa, who is the FBI?" Again, Alexa
> > responds with the lead sentence of Wikipedia's FBI article as it was at
> the
> > time.
>
> The video was posted on March 9th, 2017.
>
> This is the article about Edward Snowden as of March 6th, 2017:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&oldid=768899605
>
> and this is the article about FBI as of March 7th,2017:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federal_
> Bureau_of_Investigation&oldid=769027291
>
> The response about Edward Snowden is not verbatim (I had a look also at
> some of the previous revisions, and the incipit did not change). It is
> very similar for sure and I can see some way to automatically get from
> the Wikipedia article incipt to the sentence spoken by Alexa. But at
> this point if you rephrase a sentence and use facts I don't think you
> are infringing copyright. It could be akin to close paraphrasing[1], but
> the quantity of text is limited.
>
> The response about FBI instead is verbatim.
>
> In both cases, they may be within the realm of the "right to quote"[2]
> (I am not sure this concept exists in US law per se) or "fair use".
>
> > You say that Alexa reportedly gets some of this from Bing. But even if
> > that's the case, how does it make a difference? To me it seems rather
> like
> > Flickrwashing (Bingwashing?).
>
> It may totally make a difference. I am not a lawyer, but I think the
> question about the copyright status of search snippets and indexes for
> search engines has already been addressed by jurisprudence.
>
> Simply put, the amount of text used changes the situation from "right to
> quote"/"fair use" to "derivative work".
>
> Furthermore, to correctly cite Wikipedia, if snippets would not be
> considered under fair use/right to quote, they would need to also cite
> the license.
>
> In this regard, compare the difference - http://imgur.com/gallery/3FQZS
> - between the snippets (both from Google and Bing), which do not have a
> license indication and the extensive portion of text which is displayed
> in the box in Bing which correctly indicates both the link to the
> original work and the license. Interestingly, in the case of the FBI,
> the box in Bing has less text and no indication of the license. It may
> be that they automatically decide that if they are going to show more
> than N words/characters then they do not treat the text as a quotation
> but as a derivative work and so they show the license.
>
> I tried with another couple searches and this behavior seems
> consistent. If they shw a short chunk of text (~ 1 sentence), they do
> not provide the source and link to the license. If they show a big chunk
> of text (with a "+" sign) they do.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation could ask for a clarification to Amazon, but I
> suspect that the answer would not differ very much from above.
>
> Cristian
>
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing
> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_quote
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Am 27.07.2017 um 14:36 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:

> ...
> You say that Alexa reportedly gets some of this from Bing. But even if
> that's the case, how does it make a difference? To me it seems rather like
> Flickrwashing (Bingwashing?).
>
>
Christian already beat me to the punch and essentially has touched on
all the in and outs of search results snippets and their copyright
status, and I would defer to that and the WMF legal department for
opinions on those aspects.

Wrt using bing, that is not "reportedly", one of the nice things about
Alexa is that the companion app will actually display how it resolved
the action. In both mentioned cases it uses a bing query to get an
answer. The interesting bit is that the answer for Edward Snowden
doesn't seem to turn up in the regular top bing search results even
after a lot of reconfiguration.

In any case I don't quite understand the negative view on this, I would
see it more as an opportunity for the WMF to improve how Amazon gets
results from WP and try to cut out the middle man in this case.

Simon
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
On 27/07/2017 16:46, James Heilman wrote:
> We want these devices to read from Wikipedia. We just want attribution as
> appropriate. If they are already attributing when they go beyond fair use
> than all is good.

I agree, but the only way to know for sure is asking, I think.

Also, I am assuming that they already thought about this because in the
end they need to balance what they are legally obliged to do with what
they want to do to have a smooth interaction with the user.

Cristian

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Am 27.07.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Simon Poole:
> Wrt using bing, that is not "reportedly", one of the nice things about
> Alexa is that the companion app will actually display how it resolved
> the action. In both mentioned cases it uses a bing query to get an
> answer. The interesting bit is that the answer for Edward Snowden
> doesn't seem to turn up in the regular top bing search results even
> after a lot of reconfiguration.
>
>
I may actually be jumping to conclusions on that, and maybe Amazon is
not using bing for the simple search results in the end. But I still
don't see a qualitative difference to a normal search result with all
the caveats wrt copyright that Christian has mentioned.

Simon
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Hi Cristian,


In both cases, they may be within the realm of the "right to quote"[2]
> (I am not sure this concept exists in US law per se) or "fair use".
>


I haven't checked the accuracy of the "Right to quote" Wikipedia article
you referenced, but I will note here that it mentions the following
requirements:


- the cited paragraphs are within a reasonable limit (varying from
country to country),
- clearly marked as quotations
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations> and
fully referenced,
- the resulting new work is not just a collection of quotations, but
constitutes a fully original work in itself.


Assuming for the moment that the information in the Wikipedia article is
sound, I don't think the first requirement is met: we are talking about
potentially millions of words reproduced from Wikipedia without
attribution. The second one is clearly not met either. The third one is
debatable, but I would lean towards the opinion that the entire body of
Alexa's output is not a "fully original work in itself" if its answers draw
substantially on Wikipedia.

The Wikipedia article's lead further mentions that the making of quotations
has to be "compatible with fair practice, and their extent does not exceed
that justified by the purpose".

The Amazon Echo is a commercial product sold for the company's
(considerable) profit. The information "Alexa" provides is a substantial
part of the product's value to the customer. It's the main selling point.

This kind of commercial purpose is completely different from the making of
quotations in the context of critical reviews, parodies and so on, which in
no way attempt to *replace* the source quoted from, but instead exist to
provide a sort of commentary on it.

My understanding is that this latter kind of purpose is the kind of purpose
"fair use" is meant to support.



> > You say that Alexa reportedly gets some of this from Bing. But even if
> > that's the case, how does it make a difference? To me it seems rather
> like
> > Flickrwashing (Bingwashing?).
>
> It may totally make a difference. I am not a lawyer, but I think the
> question about the copyright status of search snippets and indexes for
> search engines has already been addressed by jurisprudence.
>


Surely, the difference with search snippets is that such snippets, by the
very nature of things, include a link to the original. That is their
purpose. And this has a direct bearing on all of the CC licence
requirements quoted earlier. In other words, by following the link provided
in the search result, readers can view the original work the snippet is
taken from, identify its title, its authors, its copyright status and the
precise licence under which the material is published.

None of that is possible with Alexa. Alexa's use of Wikipedia, where things
literally come out of a black box, with the listener uninformed as to their
origin, is substantially different, and indeed competitive to Wikipedia
itself.



> Simply put, the amount of text used changes the situation from "right to
> quote"/"fair use" to "derivative work".
>


Derivative works, of course, have to be published under the same licence.



> Furthermore, to correctly cite Wikipedia, if snippets would not be
> considered under fair use/right to quote, they would need to also cite
> the license.
>


See above – search snippets contain a link to the original. This might be
considered "reasonable" in the context of a search engine, given space
limitations, usability considerations etc.

To be sure, in the case of the Amazon Echo, I don't think it would be
"reasonable" to expect "Alexa" to recite the complete text of the CC
licence, along with the names of all contributors who had worked on the
material included, etc. The medium is a material factor here. But Amazon
appears to proceed on the assumption that it is "reasonable" to
proceed *without
any attribution whatsoever* in their delivery medium.



> In this regard, compare the difference - http://imgur.com/gallery/3FQZS
> - between the snippets (both from Google and Bing), which do not have a
> license indication and the extensive portion of text which is displayed
> in the box in Bing which correctly indicates both the link to the
> original work and the license. Interestingly, in the case of the FBI,
> the box in Bing has less text and no indication of the license. It may
> be that they automatically decide that if they are going to show more
> than N words/characters then they do not treat the text as a quotation
> but as a derivative work and so they show the license.
>
> I tried with another couple searches and this behavior seems
> consistent. If they shw a short chunk of text (~ 1 sentence), they do
> not provide the source and link to the license. If they show a big chunk
> of text (with a "+" sign) they do.
>


Interesting, thank you.



> The Wikimedia Foundation could ask for a clarification to Amazon, but I
> suspect that the answer would not differ very much from above.
>


A clarification and examination of Amazon's reasoning would indeed be
welcome.

Andreas



> Cristian
>
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing
> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_quote
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Cristian Consonni <cristian@balist.es>
wrote:

> The video was posted on March 9th, 2017.
>
> This is the article about Edward Snowden as of March 6th, 2017:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&oldid=768899605
>
> The response about Edward Snowden is not verbatim (I had a look also at
> some of the previous revisions, and the incipit did not change).



If you go back a bit further in the article's history, the odd "Ed" that
Alexa reads out in the video, between "Joseph" and "Snowden", makes an
appearance in Wikipedia as well. E.g. here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&oldid=736868946

Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...

I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version that
matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume that
this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone by
the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
>
> Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
>
> I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version that
> matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume that
> this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone by
> the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.

The current (full) answer is

'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former
CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'

Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that
Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so on.

Simon
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Hello,

I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.

We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised on
this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
update.

All the best,
Adele

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:

>
>
> Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
> >
> > Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
> >
> > I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version
> that
> > matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume that
> > this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone by
> > the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
>
> The current (full) answer is
>
> 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former
> CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
> information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
>
> Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
> example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that
> Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so on.
>
> Simon
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
On 28/07/2017 02:29, Adele Vrana wrote:
> I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
>
> We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised on
> this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
> update.

Thanks for your help, Adele!

Cristian

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:

> The current (full) answer is
>
> 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former
> CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
> information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
>


What happens when you say "Tell me more"? Could you try please?



> Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
> example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that
> Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so on.
>


Yes, that's what I thought.


On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana <avrana@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
>
> We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised on
> this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
> update.
>
> All the best,
> Adele



Thanks, Adele!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Am 28.07.2017 um 09:34 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
> What happens when you say "Tell me more"? Could you try please?
>
>
Nothing, "Alexa, tell me more" the same.

Simon
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Some further thoughts on this thread while we wait for Adele to come back
to us.

According to Statista,[1] the worldwide market for virtual digital
assistants is expected to grow from $1.64 billion in 2015 to $15.79 billion
by 2021. That's a tenfold increase over six years. Digital assistants will
reportedly outnumber people by 2021.[2]

The Foundation has long been worried about the shift to mobile, the related
decline in desktop page views, and its effect on donations. But doesn't the
growing popularity of digital assistants – all of them, ironically, drawing
to varying degrees on Wikimedia projects – represent a much greater threat
to Wikipedia page views in the medium to long term than mobile?

At some point, I fear, opening a browser window on your computer or phone,
typing in a search term, and opening up a Wikipedia page will to many
people and in many contexts seem quaint and old-fashioned. Or to be more
precise, it won't even seem quaint and old-fashioned: people will gradually
stop doing it, and forget they ever did it, just like it's become rare for
most of us to get up, walk to a bookcase, and look up a term in a book,
because Googling is faster and more convenient. What will happen to
Wikipedia page views then?

In my view, the decision taken many years ago to make Wikimedia content
freely available to all re-users, even those earning billions of dollars
from it, was a gigantic mistake. It sold contributors, who work for
nothing, out. There should have been a (high) profit threshold above which
re-users should have been required to pay a percentage of their profits
back into the Wikimedia movement's pot.

But given that that bridge was burnt long ago – irretrievably so, it seems
– shouldn't the Foundation now, at the very least, do its utmost to make
sure that the minimal rights volunteers retain over the content they
contribute to their projects are respected? (Wikidata's CC-0 licence was
another huge mis-step in my view, as it reduces Wikimedia's visibility to
nothing, just as it is reduced to nothing in the Amazon Echo examples
described in this thread.) Otherwise, aren't we running the risk that
Wikipedia may well be as healthy in a couple of decades' time as DMOZ is
today?

And, bearing in mind the projected growth of the virtual digital assistant
market, shouldn't the Wikimedia Foundation look at developing and marketing
its own Wikipedia-based virtual digital assistant, to at least earn a share
of the income its volunteers' work will generate in the years to come?
Won't volunteers otherwise just continue to be fodder to make Apple,
Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc. even richer than they already are?

Andreas

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/589079/worldwide-
virtual-digital-assistants-consumer-market/
[2] http://www.netimperative.com/2017/05/digital-
assistants-outnumber-people-2021/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
There appears to already be an open-source AI voice assistant effort.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthunckler/2017/05/15/this-open-source-ai-voice-assistant-is-challenging-siri-and-alexa-for-market-superiority/#4a73f53b3ec0

Like with the open search movement, IMO we should collaborate with the
ongoing efforts being lead by others rather than lead the efforts ourselves
or lead the efforts internally.

Agree we need to make sure that Wikipedia content is appropriately
attributed by the wider world who re-use us. Our main goal IMO needs to be
to make Wikipedia high quality / maintain its high quality.

James

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:

> Some further thoughts on this thread while we wait for Adele to come back
> to us.
>
> According to Statista,[1] the worldwide market for virtual digital
> assistants is expected to grow from $1.64 billion in 2015 to $15.79 billion
> by 2021. That's a tenfold increase over six years. Digital assistants will
> reportedly outnumber people by 2021.[2]
>
> The Foundation has long been worried about the shift to mobile, the related
> decline in desktop page views, and its effect on donations. But doesn't the
> growing popularity of digital assistants – all of them, ironically, drawing
> to varying degrees on Wikimedia projects – represent a much greater threat
> to Wikipedia page views in the medium to long term than mobile?
>
> At some point, I fear, opening a browser window on your computer or phone,
> typing in a search term, and opening up a Wikipedia page will to many
> people and in many contexts seem quaint and old-fashioned. Or to be more
> precise, it won't even seem quaint and old-fashioned: people will gradually
> stop doing it, and forget they ever did it, just like it's become rare for
> most of us to get up, walk to a bookcase, and look up a term in a book,
> because Googling is faster and more convenient. What will happen to
> Wikipedia page views then?
>
> In my view, the decision taken many years ago to make Wikimedia content
> freely available to all re-users, even those earning billions of dollars
> from it, was a gigantic mistake. It sold contributors, who work for
> nothing, out. There should have been a (high) profit threshold above which
> re-users should have been required to pay a percentage of their profits
> back into the Wikimedia movement's pot.
>
> But given that that bridge was burnt long ago – irretrievably so, it seems
> – shouldn't the Foundation now, at the very least, do its utmost to make
> sure that the minimal rights volunteers retain over the content they
> contribute to their projects are respected? (Wikidata's CC-0 licence was
> another huge mis-step in my view, as it reduces Wikimedia's visibility to
> nothing, just as it is reduced to nothing in the Amazon Echo examples
> described in this thread.) Otherwise, aren't we running the risk that
> Wikipedia may well be as healthy in a couple of decades' time as DMOZ is
> today?
>
> And, bearing in mind the projected growth of the virtual digital assistant
> market, shouldn't the Wikimedia Foundation look at developing and marketing
> its own Wikipedia-based virtual digital assistant, to at least earn a share
> of the income its volunteers' work will generate in the years to come?
> Won't volunteers otherwise just continue to be fodder to make Apple,
> Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc. even richer than they already are?
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/589079/worldwide-
> virtual-digital-assistants-consumer-market/
> [2] http://www.netimperative.com/2017/05/digital-
> assistants-outnumber-people-2021/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Hi all,

I checked in with Adele today, to ask about progress on the Amazon Echo
licensing issue, and whether she had a rough idea when she'd be able to
report back to us.

Adele was happy for me to pass on here that we're unlikely to hear anything
further about this until September, as Wikimania is looming, and she will
be off on a much-needed holiday after that.

Adele added that the timeline really depends on the Amazon staff they
contacted. While she will let us know as soon as she hears from them, the
call required for this type of outreach will probably only happen in
September.

Best,
Andreas

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana <avrana@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
>
> We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised on
> this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
> update.
>
> All the best,
> Adele
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
> > >
> > > Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
> > >
> > > I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version
> > that
> > > matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume that
> > > this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone
> by
> > > the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
> >
> > The current (full) answer is
> >
> > 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former
> > CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
> > information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
> >
> > Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
> > example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that
> > Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so
> on.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
I was speaking with Barbara Page last night (Barbara's highlighting of this
issue in a Wikipediocracy blog post
http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ prompted Andreas to open this
discussion) last night and she told me when she asks Alexa about ovarian
cancer these days, Alexa begins with "According to Wikipedia..." Can anyone
else with Alexa confirm this?

On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 at 3:55 am, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I checked in with Adele today, to ask about progress on the Amazon Echo
> licensing issue, and whether she had a rough idea when she'd be able to
> report back to us.
>
> Adele was happy for me to pass on here that we're unlikely to hear anything
> further about this until September, as Wikimania is looming, and she will
> be off on a much-needed holiday after that.
>
> Adele added that the timeline really depends on the Amazon staff they
> contacted. While she will let us know as soon as she hears from them, the
> call required for this type of outreach will probably only happen in
> September.
>
> Best,
> Andreas
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana <avrana@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
> >
> > We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised
> on
> > this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
> > update.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Adele
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
> > > >
> > > > Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
> > > >
> > > > I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version
> > > that
> > > > matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume
> that
> > > > this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone
> > by
> > > > the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
> > >
> > > The current (full) answer is
> > >
> > > 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former
> > > CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
> > > information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
> > >
> > > Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
> > > example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that
> > > Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so
> > on.
> > >
> > > Simon
> > >
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
I just tested and it doesn't for me. I can send you the audio if you are
interested.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was speaking with Barbara Page last night (Barbara's highlighting of this
> issue in a Wikipediocracy blog post
> http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ prompted Andreas to open this
> discussion) last night and she told me when she asks Alexa about ovarian
> cancer these days, Alexa begins with "According to Wikipedia..." Can anyone
> else with Alexa confirm this?
>
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 at 3:55 am, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I checked in with Adele today, to ask about progress on the Amazon Echo
> > licensing issue, and whether she had a rough idea when she'd be able to
> > report back to us.
> >
> > Adele was happy for me to pass on here that we're unlikely to hear
> anything
> > further about this until September, as Wikimania is looming, and she will
> > be off on a much-needed holiday after that.
> >
> > Adele added that the timeline really depends on the Amazon staff they
> > contacted. While she will let us know as soon as she hears from them, the
> > call required for this type of outreach will probably only happen in
> > September.
> >
> > Best,
> > Andreas
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana <avrana@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
> > >
> > > We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions
> raised
> > on
> > > this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
> > > update.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > > Adele
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
> > > > >
> > > > > Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
> > > > >
> > > > > I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article
> version
> > > > that
> > > > > matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume
> > that
> > > > > this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had
> gone
> > > by
> > > > > the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
> > > >
> > > > The current (full) answer is
> > > >
> > > > 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional
> former
> > > > CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
> > > > information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
> > > >
> > > > Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
> > > > example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe
> that
> > > > Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and
> so
> > > on.
> > > >
> > > > Simon
> > > >
> > > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
I tried quite a lot (around 10 times) and succeded to get one saying ‘here’s something I found from Wikipedia.’ I have it recorded, but uploading it fails... Will try later.

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2017. 9. 22. 01:27, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu@gmail.com> ??:

> I was speaking with Barbara Page last night (Barbara's highlighting of this
> issue in a Wikipediocracy blog post
> http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ prompted Andreas to open this
> discussion) last night and she told me when she asks Alexa about ovarian
> cancer these days, Alexa begins with "According to Wikipedia..." Can anyone
> else with Alexa confirm this?
>
>> On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 at 3:55 am, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I checked in with Adele today, to ask about progress on the Amazon Echo
>> licensing issue, and whether she had a rough idea when she'd be able to
>> report back to us.
>>
>> Adele was happy for me to pass on here that we're unlikely to hear anything
>> further about this until September, as Wikimania is looming, and she will
>> be off on a much-needed holiday after that.
>>
>> Adele added that the timeline really depends on the Amazon staff they
>> contacted. While she will let us know as soon as she hears from them, the
>> call required for this type of outreach will probably only happen in
>> September.
>>
>> Best,
>> Andreas
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana <avrana@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
>>>
>>> We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions raised
>> on
>>> this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
>>> update.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Adele
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
>>>>>
>>>>> Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
>>>>>
>>>>> I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version
>>>> that
>>>>> matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume
>> that
>>>>> this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone
>>> by
>>>>> the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
>>>>
>>>> The current (full) answer is
>>>>
>>>> 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former
>>>> CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
>>>> information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
>>>>
>>>> Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
>>>> example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that
>>>> Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so
>>> on.
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance? [ In reply to ]
Thank you Adele and Yongmin. I'll ask Barbara to clarify next time we chat.

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 at 12:49 am, Yongmin H. <lists@revi.pe.kr> wrote:

> I tried quite a lot (around 10 times) and succeded to get one saying
> ‘here’s something I found from Wikipedia.’ I have it recorded, but
> uploading it fails... Will try later.
>
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> 2017. 9. 22. 01:27, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu@gmail.com> ??:
>
> > I was speaking with Barbara Page last night (Barbara's highlighting of
> this
> > issue in a Wikipediocracy blog post
> > http://wikipediocracy.com/2017/07/24/alexa/ prompted Andreas to open
> this
> > discussion) last night and she told me when she asks Alexa about ovarian
> > cancer these days, Alexa begins with "According to Wikipedia..." Can
> anyone
> > else with Alexa confirm this?
> >
> >> On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 at 3:55 am, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I checked in with Adele today, to ask about progress on the Amazon Echo
> >> licensing issue, and whether she had a rough idea when she'd be able to
> >> report back to us.
> >>
> >> Adele was happy for me to pass on here that we're unlikely to hear
> anything
> >> further about this until September, as Wikimania is looming, and she
> will
> >> be off on a much-needed holiday after that.
> >>
> >> Adele added that the timeline really depends on the Amazon staff they
> >> contacted. While she will let us know as soon as she hears from them,
> the
> >> call required for this type of outreach will probably only happen in
> >> September.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Adele Vrana <avrana@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I am Adele Vrana, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Foundation.
> >>>
> >>> We have contacts at Amazon and will seek to clarify the questions
> raised
> >> on
> >>> this thread. I will make sure to circle back with you once we have an
> >>> update.
> >>>
> >>> All the best,
> >>> Adele
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Am 27.07.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden ...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I will not spend an hour trying to identify the exact article version
> >>>> that
> >>>>> matches Alexa's output in that video best, but it's safe to assume
> >> that
> >>>>> this inserted "Ed", too, came from Wikipedia, even though it had gone
> >>> by
> >>>>> the time the video was uploaded to YouTube.
> >>>>
> >>>> The current (full) answer is
> >>>>
> >>>> 'Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden, the American computer professional former
> >>>> CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified
> >>>> information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013.'
> >>>>
> >>>> Now obviously there could be -lots- going on behind the scenes, for
> >>>> example long term caching of search results (difficult to believe that
> >>>> Bing would allow that if it is really from them, but who knows) and so
> >>> on.
> >>>>
> >>>> Simon
> >>>>
> >>>>
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