[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 18:08:48 UTC 2007


> 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.

That's a very significant difference. It doesn't say "a provider which
is not a publisher", it just says "a provider". Based on that, I would
say the WMF is the publisher of Wikipedia, but it isn't liable as
publisher for user generated content.



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