I see, thank you for your explanation, coming from a civil law system it sounds pretty weird. Anyway I concur, it's pure madness and some action must be taken.
Vito
2016-12-19 19:46 GMT+01:00 geni geniice@gmail.com:
On 19 December 2016 at 18:38, Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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?
Without some form of safe harbor the likes of AP and getty would have a fairly solid case for statutory damages for every single one of their images uploaded even if we deleted them fairly quickly. We could probably argue it down to $200 per image but it would still add up.
-- geni
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