Well, my personal feelings on copyright, especially as involves
personal not-for-profit copying, involve something to the effect of
"Long live DVD Jon, Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman, and limit
the damn term to 5 years, no one else profits from their work for life
plus 70!" Just to make sure that's out in the open.
That being said. Wikipedia has a nice DMCA compliance notice on the
page. -If-, and only if, Wikipedia gets a DMCA notice regarding that
string, we could temporarily take it down (in a legitimate OFFICE
action), while the community is notified what's going on and asked
what to do. If so, they post it on Chilling Effects, like everyone
else does, and we talk about the issue. And we watch whoever sent it
get crucified all over the place. And indeed, once that article hits
Slashdot and Digg and X million blogs, one might just find that a lot
of "anonymous people" are willing to throw in a few bucks for legal
expenses, on fighting that one.
But in the meantime, if we can reliably source it (and if we can't
today, we can tomorrow!), publish the damn string. It's a -number-.
Yes, we should generally go along with the legal system. But not those
who are hyperventilating that there is any -realistic- possibility
that a number, a string of digits, can be forbidden by law.
Seraphimblade
On 5/2/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Yeah. The "wait" solution is bolstered
by its clear effectiveness on
[[Brian Peppers]] - after a year, it was obvious "oh, he's not really
notable after all." Just some poor bugger with a weird condition.
Well, we never really got to come to a conclusion on that. And the
conclusion we came to was pathetically wrong, so it's a poor example
across the board.
Notability isn't temporary, whether it's some unfortunate web meme or a
large-scale act of civil disobedience. Yes, probably, if we had an
article on the situation and on the number, it would decrease it better
than the typical overreaction we tend to have.
-Jeff
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