[Foundation-l] Minors and sexual explicit stuff

[George Herbert]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>> As is often stated WMF is an ISP, and not a publisher.
>
> Stating it often doesn't make it true.  The WMF is quite clearly a
> publisher.  It even has admitted as much when it exercised the GFDL
> clause purporting to allow "any World Wide Web server that publishes
> copyrightable works and also provides prominent facilities for anybody
> to edit those works" to "republish" Wikipedia (et. al.) under
> CC-BY-SA.  Anyone who says the WMF is not a publisher is just plain
> wrong.
>
> So state it as much as you want.  The WMF is a publisher.  Under
> Section 230 of the CDA it most likely won't be treated as a publisher,
> but that doesn't mean it isn't a publisher.

The section 230 that would seem to matter here?

The WMF has all sorts of roles, depending on who you are, how you look
at it, and what your perspective is (and what day of the month it is,
etc).  Referring to legal issues, one has to remain domain specific
when using specific terms in a legal sense.



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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com