Anthony DiPierro wrote:
The designated agent is there for takedown notices of copyright infringements, and they have to be in writing, not over the phone.
Do you think that if the Wikimedia Foundation gets a phone call from someone complaining about copyright infringement, they're going to say, "Sorry, we're not going to do anything unless you send it in writing with all the elements required for a takedown notice"?
Also, Jimmy has stated that most of the problems that people are complaining over are not legal problems, but inaccuracy problems.
The two are not neatly separable. Fundamentally, defamation cases involve inaccuracy problems.
So, if I find an inaccuracy in Wikipedia, should I call up Danny?
No, you should edit the article, unless the article is actually about you.
--Michael Snow
On 3/12/06, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
The designated agent is there for takedown notices of copyright infringements, and they have to be in writing, not over the phone.
Do you think that if the Wikimedia Foundation gets a phone call from someone complaining about copyright infringement, they're going to say, "Sorry, we're not going to do anything unless you send it in writing with all the elements required for a takedown notice"?
I don't know, but that's pretty off-topic.
Also, Jimmy has stated that most of the problems that people are complaining over are not legal problems, but inaccuracy problems.
The two are not neatly separable. Fundamentally, defamation cases involve inaccuracy problems.
But inaccuracy problems aren't necessarily defamation.
So, if I find an inaccuracy in Wikipedia, should I call up Danny?
No, you should edit the article, unless the article is actually about you.
--Michael Snow
I thought there was no policy that articles on living people were treated any differently.
Anthony
On 3/12/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
I thought there was no policy that articles on living people were treated any differently.
I guess WP:AUTO means that articles on living people may be treated differently, if only because dead people rarely edit their own articles.
-Matt
Michael Snow wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
The designated agent is there for takedown notices of copyright infringements, and they have to be in writing, not over the phone.
Do you think that if the Wikimedia Foundation gets a phone call from someone complaining about copyright infringement, they're going to say, "Sorry, we're not going to do anything unless you send it in writing with all the elements required for a takedown notice"?
Well Michael...
In all good faith, this happens. Whether on the phone or on otrs, when the message sounds reasonnable, and in particular when it cites a book or a website where the image or text comes from, yes, we actually remove the image or the text, on the assumption of good faith.
When the request sounds a bit the one of a lunatic, we do not necessarily do so... We do not straight ask the person information required for a takedown notice, but we certainly do ask a little bit more information to justify the claim of cp infringment :-)
ant