Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 7/24/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
In the absence of some willingness to confront these issues, we keep issuing our own judgements against ourselves. This can only lead to being bogged down in a legal web of our own making. We don't need to defend every last claim of copyvio that comes along, but showing a litle courage would be nice.
Courage?
Courage is when we step up and delete material which is not free content, material which is questionably legal. Courage is trusting our contributors to create content which is clearly and confidently free. Courage is knowing that a loss of content will not be permanent because we can create our own and that we are not so unskilled that we must better our project by taking from others.
Should we ever do as proposed and try to hide behind legal loopholes and legislated mandated snipe hunts in order to continue to distribute content which our contributors did not create, content which violates our goal of Free content... than I would call that cowardice indeed.
I have no intention of hiding behind legal loopholes; I am quite willing to be perfectly open about which legal rights I am invoking as the situation requires. Taking from other sources does not autoomatically imply copyright violation as you seem to suggest. To be sure it needs to be credited to avoid plagiarism, but that's a different matter.
Ec