On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Ilya Schurov ilya.schurov@noo.ru wrote: <snip>
They say that we put excessive burden on the editors and it is simply not necessary to investigate facts of copyright violation on third-party websites (at least, since there are no requests from copyright holders), because we have no explicit statements of the Foundation that we have to do it.
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On the narrow issue of en:WP:C and Intellectual Reserve v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry, neither is expected to impose a positive burden on editors. The court case is predicated on the fact that they already knew they were linking to copyright violations and continued to do so intentionally.
The enwiki policy is simply a statement that we will remove links if we become aware that they are associated with copyvios, but it is fine for an ordinarily editor to link to anything unless he has already become aware of a problem. No editor is required or expected to do copyright investigations before adding a normal link.
-Robert