Andrew Gray wrote: > On 4 March 2010 19:41, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Which means of course that a person could claim copyright to the very >> technology underlying Wikipedia, and demand the entire project be taken >> down. >> In fact a different mentally ill person could make this claim every month >> and force the project offline. >> >> That's the world you're advocating? No responsibility on the part of the >> office to even make the slightest attempt to verify the claim? >> > I think we're falling into the trap of constructing strawmen to fight here. > > I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that if someone wrote to > the WMF claiming to hold the rights to the text of, oh, /Bleak House/, > that we would then be obliged to take a copy of it down - because the > claim itself is patently nonsensical and can be ignored. > > But the fact that we can ignore patently invalid demands - and I am > quite sure we do, without a qualm - doesn't mean that we ought to feel > we can or should start adjudicating on the reasonableness of any > not-entirely-clear-cut case that turns up, such as this one... > >
A lot of this comes down to a question of choosing your battles. As much as I disagree with the validity of these notices this should not be WMF's fight. There is plenty of meat for individuals who want to take up the cudgels; that's how they accept personal responsibility: by putting their money where their mouths are instead of trying to pass the buck to the WMF. A takedown notice needs to show where the material was originally published. TI would certainly not have published the keys themselves, so quoting them cannot be a copyvio of their rights unless it can be proven to be from stolen documents. As I understand it the hackers figured out the keys for themselves instead of copying them from elsewhere, so if there is any copyright it likely belongs to the hackers. Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
