On 6/3/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 6/3/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
in the case where you know about the file,
you're still liable for
contributory infringement.
Before someone takes *that* the wrong way, I'm talking about the person
who
runs the server and knows about the file, not
*everyone* who knows about
the
file.
It's a matter of knowing about the infringement; not just knowing about
the file.
Specifically, it requires "knowledge of the infringing activity", which
seems to me to be different from "knowledge that the activity is
infringing". But now we're getting way beyond my initial statement, and
into the realm of hypotheticals which are far too poorly defined. If you
can find some material on exactly what constitutes "knowledge" for the
purposes of contributory copyright infringement, I would be interested in
it, though.
Just because a few people with no connection to the material
allege that there is a copyvio does not imply that you
know about the
infringement. Once you get past that you need to remember that we are
only considering a small part of the file. The rest may be perfectly
keepable as far as copyrights are concerned.