Article removed This page used to have a good article on it that was taken, with full attribution, from the Daily Maverick. The Daily Maverick is a South African free-to-view collective blog made up to look like a newspaper. The Daily Maverick people seem not to have liked the CU sampling their article. They went straight to Blogger with a complaint in terms of a US law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or "DMCA". Blogger removed the item from the blog and set it back to be a draft. Then they sent me a long e-mail saying at the end: "If it is brought to our attention that you have republished the post without removing the content/link in question, then we will delete your post and count it as a violation on your account. Repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in further remedial action taken against your Blogger account including deleting your blog and/or terminating your account. If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain your own legal counsel."
All this is a bit frightening for the Communist University. This is the first time in the history of the CU that it has happened. The only other time when there was a threat was from Tony Leon's lawyers during an election campaign, which we ignored, and which they had the good sense not to follow through with. The Daily Maverick, in its message over our heads to Blogger, listed all of the material as being "in question" as a "copyright complaint". Hence I have removed all of it, including the link. VC -- Posted By DomzaNet to Communist University on 5/07/2010 10:41:00 PM -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
