Ilya Schurov wrote: > Robert Rohde wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Ilya Schurov <[email protected]> wrote: >> <snip> >>> 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. >> <snip> >> >> On the narrow issue of en:WP:C and Intellectual Reserve v. Utah >> Lighthouse Ministry, neither is expected to impose a positive burden >> on editors. The court case is predicated on the fact that they >> already knew they were linking to copyright violations and continued >> to do so intentionally. >> >> The enwiki policy is simply a statement that we will remove links if >> we become aware that they are associated with copyvios, but it is fine >> for an ordinarily editor to link to anything unless he has already >> become aware of a problem. No editor is required or expected to do >> copyright investigations before adding a normal link. > Yes, it's clear. Nobody is going to require editors to do copyvio > investigation of third-party resources before linking them. It's a > conflict resolution matter: e.g. one editor claim that some site > violates copyright and therefore we shouldn't link there, while the > other editor try to put this link into the article and argue that > copyright issues are not important here. ArbCom believes that the site > under consider indeed violates copyright. Should we consider this as an > argument to remove such link, or just ignore it? OK, let me put my question in the following way:
What is the status of this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright, which says: "Giving external links to copyright-violating content is prohibited"? Is it a policy every project should follow? Thanks, -- Regards, Ilya V. Schurov _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
