[WikiEN-l] American Bar Association Journal on 09 f9

[David Gerard]

The [[American Bar Association]] just published this:

http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/my11blog.html

Precis: Digg may well be protected under CDA section 230, *because*
the string of hex digits is probably not copyrightable (too short, and
they've already claimed it as a mechanism, i.e. an interface, which is
not copyrightable ... probably). CDA sec 230 is why people who really
want to sue over a Wikipedia article will generally have to approach
the actual contributor.

Of course, the article notes "it may still be risky."

Oh, they also note the AACS LA hasn't a hope, and the DMCA basically
doesn't work.

Presently, [[AACS encryption key controversy]] is actually somewhat
stable and readable as an article. There's one arbitration case been
brought already over it, but it seems most of the article contributors
are horrified disagreements got that far. And even those of us who
really want the key to be quoted in the article are quite happy to
wait for things to calm down.

Next week, week after? Whenever the story dies out in the media.


- d.