[Foundation-l] Foundation policy on linking to website that violates copyright

[Michael Snow]

Ilya Schurov wrote:
> OK, let me put my question in the following way:
>
> What is the status of this page: 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright, which says: "Giving external 
> links to copyright-violating content is prohibited"? Is it a policy 
> every project should follow?
>   
Yes, they should, that's part of our general respect for copyright laws. 
Note that this is phrased specifically in terms of links to infringing 
content, rather than talking about links to a site, since parts of a 
site may be free of infringements. And as was pointed out earlier, this 
does not mean there's a duty to investigate, just that we should act 
appropriately when infringements are discovered.

--Michael Snow