That's odd and unusual especially since the article was clearly attributed, hence the links are always posted in all the referenced material the VC posts.
And I thought a maverick referred to an unconventional and independent-minded person. I guess then no more material to share from the erroneously named Daily Maverick. Good riddance! The information shall flow regardless. Amandla! Vusi Nzapheza On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:44 PM, DomzaNet <[email protected]> wrote: > * > * > *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<http://domza.blogspot.com/2010/05/malema-addresses-some-anc-yl-women.html>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] . > -- News is something someone, somewhere doesn’t want to read. The rest is PR.— Claud Cockburn www.kwelaxpress.co.za -- 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] .
