On 9/11/07, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
No WMF is a service provider. Publisher is the author.
I emailed the FSF about Wikipedia's compliance with the GFDL (short answer: he couldn't see any real problem, although it wasn't a lawyer I was talking to) and the person the replied considered WMF to be the publisher, and I agree with him. Just because they claim to be just a host doesn't make it so.
You should correct that misconception wherever you find it. There are important legal considerations and issues surrounding the Foundation's liability if they are deemed a publisher.
Maybe, but one thing I noticed recently is that [[Section 230]] of the CDA doesn't say that a service provider *isn't* a publisher, it says they won't "be treated as" a publisher. That's a subtle but perhaps significant difference.