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3 years ago

Is this author http://knol.google.com/k/sara/sara/hrlb64ddr57w/0# allowed to profit from Mahalo's articles?

Can someone copy content from Mahalo and post it on to Google's Knol content library and make money from it via Google's Adsense, like Sara has done in this body of work?
http://knol.google.com/k/sara/sara/hrlb64ddr57w/0#
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jeffhoard | 3 years ago
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Sara had permission from Mahalo to do so, she worked here at one point and I think we were just testing Knol out. If you plan on doing it, you should get permission first.

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arjo | 3 years ago
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I checked a couple of the Knols she made and they appear to be completely copied from Mahalo.com.
Usually it is OK to quote other other websites but it is considered to be inappropriate to completely copy pages from other websites.

The Mahalo Terms of Service state under Proprietary Rights

"You own your Content. We claim no intellectual property rights over the Content you provide to the Services through your Mahalo Account. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours."
http://www.mahalo.com/Terms_of_Service

So I guess the people who created these Mahalo pages could claim intellectual property rights and ask her to remove these Knols.

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