[Foundation-l] Instant Commons : INCORRECT

[amgine at saewyc.net]

On Thu, 2006-08-06 at 16:42 +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:
On 6/8/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 4. Although copyright concerns are mentioned, they don't seem to be
> > explored in depth. Commons has a huge amount of copyright violations
> > on it today.
>
> Then they should be deleted. InstantCommons is a manual,
> user-initiated process. Commons has no legal responsibility to stop
> users of other wikis from copying images from Commons, whether it is
> by means of manually downloading or uploading, or by setting their
> wiki up for IC and initiating an IC transfer process. The copyright
> cleanup script is a convenient thing we can provide, and by no means a
> legal necessity.
>
Isn't this the Napster defense? And didn't that fail to convince the US
Supreme Court? Wouldn't the failure to address copyright concerns result
in Commons potentially being used as a file sharing service?

Amgine