On Sat, March 15, 2008 18:31, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Actually, no. Amsterdam and Korea only host Squid systems, so no data is uploaded there.
The Squid servers hold cached copies of the data. Exactly whose jurisdiction things on the web fall under is very complicated and I've never understood it - it's possible Amsterdam or Korea could claim jurisdiction. Any Dutch or Korean lawyers on the list?
I was asked at a conference I was speaking at yesterday whether we (WMF/WMUK) had plans to put servers in the UK (ie squids) and I answered that we were presently disinclined to do so as various bodies, inc government ones, have mooted that any cached content on ISP servers is the responsibility of the ISP and hence we (WMF/WMUK) could be held liable for the content on a squid, albeit that it is ephemeral. The UK has some of the, um, 'most problematic' libel laws around and I'm not sure we want to lead anyone into the temptation of trying to sue us (WMF/WMUK)!
Co-coincidently, I'll be at the National Picture Gallery on Tuesday. Might see what I can and can't do in there re whether it is possible to take a photo pf something oneself, so bypassing their current argument that any photograph must be a copy of their own photograph, hence their copyright ...
Alison