Good to know :-) I was mostly just wondering if the music industry initiative was making any headway, from an outside perspective. Because if they chip a bit off, they won't stop there.
On 19 December 2016 at 20:22, Charles M. Roslof croslof@wikimedia.org wrote:
Throughout 2016, the US Copyright Office has been collecting input on the DMCA safe harbors. WMF has submitted written comments to the Copyright Office <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/06/save-safe-harbors-open-web/
[1]
and participated in in-person discussions https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/16/copyright-law/[2] on this issue. We're currently in the process of preparing a submission as part of a second round of Copyright Office comments https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/11/08/2016- 26904/section-512-study-request-for-additional-comments, due in February.[3]
If you have questions about what's going on with the safe harbors or have suggestions about what we should say in the second round of comments, I encourage you to start a discussion on the public policy mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy[4] or email me directly.
- Charles
[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/06/save-safe-harbors-open-web/ [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/16/copyright-law/ [3] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/11/08/2016- 26904/section-512-study-request-for-additional-comments [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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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