Re: [Bug-gne]Copyright infringements

[Tom Chance]

Well they buy the text themselves, and I guess are
allowed to show other people, just as you can share a
book with friends. But then you can't photocopy from a
library book officially, usually anyway. We're not
going to pay for them all.

And for now, lets look at this practically... we can't
have some select group to check for copyrights (yet).
We can't block everything just in case it is
copyrighted. All we can do is make some effort to
check them, and make it dead easy for people to notify
us (by means of a form, which I'm going to add to the
site I'm working on asap). In the future, we can
perhaps get a group of people to somehow hunt down
possible infringements, but there's little else we can
do so far as I see it.

Tom Chance

--- Christopher Mahan <address@hidden> wrote:
> I can't post a copy of "Mein Kampf" on my web
> server, but it's available at 
> the public library. Why?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Jimmy Wales <address@hidden>
> >Reply-To: address@hidden
> >To: address@hidden
> >Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]Copyright infringements
> >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:27:05 -0600
> >
> >Keep in mind that there is a strong protection for
> internet service 
> >providers
> >available -- a straightforward takedown policy gets
> you a long way.  
> >Basically,
> >if any copyright holder complains, GNE should take
> down the offending 
> >materials.
> >
> >Napster only got in legal trouble because they
> refused to take down
> >the offending materials (links to copyrighted
> songs).  (They claimed
> >it was impossible, but now they are doing it
> anyway, thus showing
> >their hypocrisy.)  They did this because they knew
> full well that their
> >business model was all about copyright
> infringement.
> >
> >GNE doesn't have that problem.  If someone puts
> copyrighted material
> >up, and someone complains, you just take it down. 
> Then the legal
> >fight is between the copyright owner and then
> person who posted.
> >(This is no different from Geocities, for example.)
> >
> >Some of the naive ideological extremists here at
> GNE may think that this 
> >amounts
> >to censorship, but there's no reason to agree with
> them, since they are 
> >wrong. :-)
> >
> >--Jimbo
> >
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