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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by userbinator on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:23PM (#16511657)
The Plaintiff is S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH

Are they related to Springer Verlag and/or that other German publishing group whose main objective was to take collections of Wikipedia articles, verbatim, and turn them into books?

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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by imurray on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:54PM (#16511851)
"Verlag" is just the German word for publishing house.
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by Xylakant on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:32PM (#16511705)
Which is, btw., entirely covered by the license as long as you allow redistribution and have proper attribution. Wikipedia is mostly covered by CC-BY-SA.
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by easychris on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:32PM (#16511704)
They belong to the Holtzbrinck Group [1]. They also operate a VC [2] and own or are invested in a lot of startups.

[1] https://www.holtzbrinck.com/

[2] http://www.hvventures.com/

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