Re: debian-legal list entry - confidential information disclosure
> Branden> I'm opposed to us practicing Stalinistic revisionism on
> Branden> our list archives.
On 12 Mar 2002, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Me too. However I don't think it's worth getting slapped with a
> copyright lawsuit over.
Your positions are not contradictory. We can make reasonable efforts to
avoid copyright lawsuits AND not give in to silly demands to revise our
archives.
> If someone actually bothers to present us with a proper DMCA copyright
> violation notice I think we should comply and remove the content from
> servers we control unless we have legal advice telling us it's fair
> use or OK for some other reason.
I'm almost certain we'd do so. But we'd do it in such a way as to make
the person who asked it sorry they'd ever bothered. This would begin with
putting equally-offensive information that is NOT copyrighted in place of
the alleged copyright violation. Even so, we'll probably be unable to act
quickly enough to prevent sites more popular than ours
(*cough*slashdot*cough*) from distributing the content very widely if they
so choose. When the topic comes up, all this will be gleefully pointed
out to our putative claimant.
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Mark Rafn dagon@dagon.net <http://www.dagon.net/>
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