On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
As is often stated WMF is an ISP, and not a publisher.
Stating it often doesn't make it true. The WMF is quite clearly a publisher. It even has admitted as much when it exercised the GFDL clause purporting to allow "any World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works" to "republish" Wikipedia (et. al.) under CC-BY-SA. Anyone who says the WMF is not a publisher is just plain wrong.
So state it as much as you want. The WMF is a publisher. Under Section 230 of the CDA it most likely won't be treated as a publisher, but that doesn't mean it isn't a publisher.