[Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please)

2014-07-07 Thread James Salsman
Kevin Gorman wrote: Regarding the IA: they have a significant interest in working with the Wikimedia projects, a lot more experience than the Wikimedia projects have caching absolutely tremendous quantities of data, a willinness to handle a degree of legal risk that would be inappropriate for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please)

2014-07-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
IA's legality in general has apparently never been tested in court, A bit too generic a statement; I assume you're talking only of the legality of giving public access to Wayback copyright-eligible all rights reserved content. IA follows a standard which is designed to avoid litigation:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please)

2014-07-07 Thread Kevin Gorman
James, I think you may have missed the part of my message about and are willing to work with us to address concerns we may have about their existing services :) In any case, given that the IA in general is way more eager to test the boundaries of copyright law and given that they (through