On 6/21/05, Andrew Venier avenier@venier.net wrote:
When it comes to copyright problems, all one has to do is anonymously claim "I wrote it" when it is found to have been published earier elsewhere? That can't be right.
I agree completely, but at the same time we have imposed an even lower standard in the past, especially on images.
It's not appropriate to suddenly 'fix' our behavior for a single user that we have decided we dislike. And that the copyvio claim has been argued with means we should not act with extreme haste.
There was no need to aggressively revert the changes, in fact, such reversions probably do nothing to strengthen our legal standing even if the text is in violation since the copyvio version was still in the history.
If you'd like to assist me in pushing stricter copyright conformance I'd love the help... Can you think of away to educate users that works peformed off of copyrighted score, even if the orignal music was written a zillion years ago, are almost always covered under the copyright of the score? Or how about "this shouldn't deserve copyright" isn't acceptable for photographs of household goods stolen off the Internet?