I wouldn't call DMCA safe harbor(s) "how Wikipedia is allowed to exist". At a glance I'd say it would (at worst) impact on some (most) wikis way to handle copyvios/the thin red line around fair-use, but most of our ecosystem shouldn't be affected. So, what am I missing?
Vito
2016-12-19 17:45 GMT+01:00 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
For various reasons * I follow music industry news. One drum the record industry has been beating *hard* in the past year is attempts to reduce the DMCA "safe harbor" provisions in order to squeeze more money from YouTube. It's been a running theme through 2016.
e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/music- industry-battling-google-youtube-what-happens-next http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7624389/ music-industry-congratulates-trump-open-letter
The DMCA "safe harbor" is otherwise known as "how Wikipedia is allowed to exist".
so! Is this on our threat radar? Do they have any hope? How close are we to another "call your Congressman" banner?
(I figure this is not a good time to say things like "well that could never happen politically")
- d.
- well, to write schadenfreude-dripping posts on rocknerd.co.uk
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