On 9/11/07, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)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.