Wikipedia-Copying Professor-Witness Troubles U.S. Judge
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A China scholar’s copying of Wikipedia in a report about his proposed testimony in a U.S. economic espionage trial is “extremely troubling,” a judge said in ordering a hearing on whether the Georgetown University law professor should be barred from testifying.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco said that professor James Feinerman’s apparent reliance on the free online encyclopedia in a report about China’s attempts to induce its citizens to steal trade secrets could make him an unreliable witness for the government at a January trial against a California businessman and China’s Pangang Group Co.