On 19 December 2016 at 18:38, Vi to <vituzzu.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wouldn't call DMCA safe harbor(s) "how Wikipedia is allowed to exist". At > a glance I'd say it would (at worst) impact on some (most) wikis way to > handle copyvios/the thin red line around fair-use, but most of our > ecosystem shouldn't be affected. So, what am I missing? >
Without some form of safe harbor the likes of AP and getty would have a fairly solid case for statutory damages for every single one of their images uploaded even if we deleted them fairly quickly. We could probably argue it down to $200 per image but it would still add up. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
