On 04/05/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
It sound like you're saying the foundation should always "wait for the takedown" even if it knows for sure that material is illegal.
Fair use can include up to 100% of a work. It was then retrospectively not illegal. Abusing this tends to get awards of attorney fees and sanctioned plaintiff lawyers.
Were the Pentagon Papers legal before the newspaper won in court?
We are of course not a news organisation. Which is why on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:HD_DVD_encryption_key_controversy I'm gathering actual news stories (not blog entries on news sites, but proper stories from proper journalistic news sites that can suffer actual pain for putting up illegal content) containing the magic keyspam.
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