On 6/3/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 6/3/07, Anthony wikimail@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.