At 7:31 AM -0700 8/20/98, Richard Masoner wrote:
> IANAL, but if the list is unmoderated all you are doing is providing a
> free-speech forum. You are not acting as an editor, and thus you are
> protected from liability. Only the person posting -- the copyright
> violator -- is liable.
In theory, ti's a nice theory. In practice, I know of a number of
mailing lists that have been shut down over copyright issues, after the
list owner was notified of the infractions and chose not to stop them.
Now, you might well win a court fight over this, but can you afford to
win it? (and frankly, I don't think you would, any more than an editor
of a publication can simply blame his authors for plagiarism in a
magazine. There is due diligence aspects involved -- and if it's
brought up to you, and you do nothing, you can't claim ignorance. you
ARE responsible at some level for the content of the list you run...)
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