Hi, list, I'm not sure I'm in the right place to ask such questions, so please point me to more correct place if you know it.
There was an ArbCom case in ruwiki about removing links to some website. One of the arguments was the fact that this website contains copyright-protected materials in such a way that violates right of copyright holder. As an evidence we had clear license statement from the copyright holder that explicitly forbid usage of copyright-protected materials in such a way as they were used on the website. So ArbCom ruled that due to absence of editorial necessity links to this site are violation of copyright policy and therefore are forbidden. ArbCom cited the policy en:WP:C and the case Intellectual Reserve v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry which is cited by that policy. However, some editors argue that en:WP:C is neither ruwiki nor Foundation policy, but just a policy of English Wikipedia, and therefore Russian Wikipedia and ArbCom don't have to follow it. (We don't have such copyright-based restrictions in our "External link" policy yet.) They say that we put excessive burden on the editors and it is simply not necessary to investigate facts of copyright violation on third-party websites (at least, since there are no requests from copyright holders), because we have no explicit statements of the Foundation that we have to do it. So my question is: are there any Foundation policy or statement about it? Should Russian Wikipedia obey en:WP:C here, or we can make our own decisions on this matter? Thanks, -- With best regards, Ilya V. Schurov [[User:Ilya Voyager]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
