[Wikipedia-l] Two issues here:
Tomos at Wikipedia
wiki_tomos at hotmail.com
Fri May 16 20:43:57 UTC 2003
(Sorry for the ommission of the subject line. But it seems that subject line
has a limit in my mail service.)
One more issue. What is legal for an admin to do/not do.
In U.S. context, I guess admins may be held liable if they do not delete
obscene or defamatory content after a notice/objection from a user. (Or is
it the project as a whole rather than admins which would be held liable?)
Similar things, but with different conditions, would apply for admins of
other language-wikis. So, sometimes, even if the content is perfectly legal
to host in a U.S. server, it would have to be deleted by an admin in another
country.
Regarding copyrights, Japanese laws provide different protections for the
copyright holders and exemptions for users (like that of fair use in the
U.S.). So, again, what is legal in U.S. context may or may not be legal in
Japanese context.
regards,
Tomos
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