Add Dreamwidth-specific legal pages.
Patch by kareila.
diffs (724 lines):
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d cgi-bin/DW/Hooks/LegalIndex.pm
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/cgi-bin/DW/Hooks/LegalIndex.pm Mon Oct 11 18:59:22 2010 +0800
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Hooks to modify the index list for /legal (views/legal/index.tt)
+#
+# Authors:
+# Jen Griffin <[email protected]>
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
+#
+# This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
+# example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
+# Dreamwidth Studios open-source code, but you cannot use it on your site
+# or redistribute it, with or without modifications.
+#
+
+package DW::Hooks::LegalIndex;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use LJ::Hooks;
+
+LJ::Hooks::register_hook( 'modify_legal_index', sub {
+ my $index = $_[0];
+ my @extra = qw ( principles diversity dmca );
+ unshift @$index, @extra;
+} );
+
+
+1;
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d htdocs/legal/diversity.bml
--- a/htdocs/legal/diversity.bml Tue Oct 05 19:47:51 2010 +0800
+++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-<?_c
-#
-# Diversity Statement
-#
-# Authors:
-# Janine Smith <[email protected]>
-# Text by:
-# The Dreamwidth Community
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2009-2010 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
-#
-# This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
-# example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
-# Dreamwidth Studios open-source code, but you cannot use it on your site
-# or redistribute it, with or without modifications.
-#
-_c?><?page
-body<=
-<p>Platitudes are cheap. We've all heard services say they're committed to
-"diversity" and "tolerance" without ever getting specific, so here's our
-stance on it:</p>
-
-<p>We welcome you.</p>
-
-<p>We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity,
size, nationality,
-sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, elder status, family
structure, culture, subculture, and
-political opinion. We welcome activists, artists, bloggers, crafters,
-dilettantes, musicians, photographers, readers, writers, ordinary people,
-extraordinary people, and everyone in between. We welcome people who want
-to change the world, people who want to keep in touch with friends, people
-who want to make great art, and people who just need a break after work. We
-welcome fans, geeks, nerds, and pixel-stained technopeasant wretches. (We
-welcome Internet beginners who aren't sure what any of those terms refer
-to.) We welcome you no matter if the Internet was a household word by the
-time you started secondary school or whether you were already retired by the
-time the World Wide Web was invented.</p>
-
-<p>We welcome you. You may wear a baby sling, hijab, a kippah, leather,
-piercings, a pentacle, a political badge, a rainbow, a rosary, tattoos, or
-something we can only dream of. You may carry a guitar or knitting needles
-or a sketchbook. Conservative or liberal, libertarian or socialist —
-we believe it's possible for people of all viewpoints and persuasions to
-come together and learn from each other. We believe in the broad spectrum
-of human experience. We believe that amazing things come when people
-from different worlds and world-views approach each other to create a
-conversation. </p>
-
-<p>We get excited about creativity — from pro to amateur, from novels
-to haiku, from the artist who's been doing this for decades to the person
-who just picked up a sketchbook last week. We support maximum freedom
-of creative expression, within the few restrictions we need to keep the
-service viable for other users. With servers in the US we're obliged to
-follow US laws, but we're serious about knowing and protecting your rights
-when it comes to free expression and privacy. We will never put a limit on
-your creativity just because it makes someone uncomfortable — even if
-that someone is us.</p>
-
-<p>We think accessibility for people with disabilities is a priority,
-not an afterthought. We think neurodiversity is a feature, not a bug. We
-believe in being inclusive, welcoming, and supportive of anyone who comes
-to us with good faith and the desire to build a community. </p>
-
-<p>We have enough experience to know that we won't get any of this perfect
-on the first try. But we have enough hope, energy, and idealism to want to
-learn things we don't know now. We may not be able to satisfy everyone, but
-we can certainly work to avoid offending anyone. And we promise that if we
-get it wrong, we'll listen carefully and respectfully to you when you point
-it out to us, and we'll do our best to make good on our mistakes. </p>
-
-<p>We think our technical and business experience is important, but we
-think our community experience is more important. We know what goes wrong
-when companies say one thing and do another, or when they refuse to say
-anything at all. We believe that keeping our operations transparent is just
-as important as keeping our servers stable. </p>
-
-<p>We use the service we're selling, and we built it because we wanted
-it ourselves. We won't treat people as second-class undesireables
-because they're non-mainstream or might frighten advertisers. We don't
-have advertisers to frighten. To us, you're not eyeballs. You're not
-pageviews. You're not demographic groups. You're people.</p>
-
-<p>Come dream with us.</p>
-<br />
-<p style="float:right; text-align:right;"><a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/";>
- <img alt="Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0" style="border-width: 0;"
src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png"; />
- </a><br /><em>This document is usable under a Creative Commons 3.0
BY-SA license.</em></p>
-
-
-<=body
-title=>Diversity Statement
-page?>
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d htdocs/legal/dmca.bml
--- a/htdocs/legal/dmca.bml Tue Oct 05 19:47:51 2010 +0800
+++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,136 +0,0 @@
-<?page
-body<=
-<?_code
-{
- # Dreamwidth DMCA Policy
- #
- # Authors:
- # Denise Paolucci <[email protected]>
- #
- # Copyright (c) 2009 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
- #
- # This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
- # example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
- # Dreamwidth Studios open-source code, but you cannot use it on your site
- # or redistribute it, with or without modifications.
- #
-
-
- use strict;
- use vars qw(%GET %POST $title $headextra @errors @warnings);
-
- $title = "Dreamwidth DMCA Policy";
-
- my $ret;
-
- $ret .= <<PAGE;
-
-
-<p>The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and specifically the
provisions located at <a
href='http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html'>17
USC 512</a>, set forth the steps an online service provider such as Dreamwidth
Studios must follow in the event of copyright infringement on their servers.</p>
-
-<p>We believe that the DMCA takedown process is a powerful tool that can help
copyright holders protect their intellectual property from being exploited. We
also believe that the DMCA takedown process is a powerful tool that is
frequently misused to force a chilling effect on legitimate and legal speech.
Our enforcement policy is an attempt to prevent the worst abuses of this
process that we've seen over the years, while still upholding our legal
obligations and protecting copyright holders from the misuse of their
intellectual property.</p>
-
-<p>This is a complicated process, and the law surrounding it is unclear in
many situations. We've tried to make this as readable as possible. If you have
any questions that aren't covered here, please <a
href='http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/submit'>contact us</a> with your
questions.</p>
-
-<p>None of this material should be construed as legal advice. We cannot advise
you on how to protect your rights online, either your rights as a copyright
holder or your rights as someone accused of copyright infringement. If you are
in need of legal advice, contact a lawyer who is licensed to practice in your
jurisdiction.</p>
-
-<h2>Notification of Copyright Infringement</h2>
-
-<p>If you believe that someone on Dreamwidth Studios has violated your
copyright, you may send us a Notification of Copyright Infringement. For us to
process such a notification, it must substantially comply with the requirements
set forth in United States law. To speed our handling of your notification,
please make sure it complies with the following criteria:</p>
-
-<ol><li>Notifications may be submitted to Dreamwidth's Registered Agent in one
of three ways. You may send it via email (no attachments, please) to
<b>[email protected]</b>; you may send it via fax to
<b>319-856-3598</b>; or you may send it via physical mail to <b>38 S Paca St
#217, Baltimore, MD, 21201</b>. We prefer to receive notification via email or
fax.</li>
-
-<li>Notifications must be signed by the copyright holder or the copyright
holder's designated agent. Signatures may be a physical signature or a digital
signature in a recognized industry-standard format such as PGP. Unsigned
notifications will not be processed.</li>
-
-<li>Notifications must specifically identify the copyrighted work being
infringed upon. For instance, if the work is a published book, provide the
title, author, and ISBN; if the work is a magazine article, provide the title,
author, magazine name, and magazine issue; if the work is available on the
Internet, provide the URL of the work.</li>
-
-<li>Notifications must specifically include the URL where the work is being
infringed upon Dreamwidth's servers. For us to be able to reasonably identify
the material, you must provide us with the complete URL, not a link to the
entire journal. For instance, instead of http://username.dreamwidth.org (a link
to the entire journal), provide http://username.dreamwidth.org/123.html (a link
to the specific entry).</li>
-
-<li>Notifications must include sufficient information for us to contact you,
including your address, your telephone number, and your email address.</li>
-
-<li>Notifications must contain a statement that you have a good faith belief
that the use of the material in this manner is not authorized by the copyright
owner(s), their agent, or the law.</li>
-
-<li>Notifications must contain a statement that the information in the
notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is allegedly being
infringed.</li>
-</ol><br />
-
-<p>Your notification will be forwarded, in its entirety, to the owner of the
account posting the allegedly-infringing content. We reserve the right to make
copies available to third parties, such as the <a
href='http://www.chillingeffects.org/'>Chilling Effects Clearinghouse</a>, as
we see fit, for purposes of academic study and legal review.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Takedown Process</h2>
-
-<p>When we receive a properly-formatted notice of copyright infringement, we
will forward it to the account owner and provide a limited amount of time to
disable access to the allegedly-infringing content.</p>
-
-<p>If you have received this notice from us, this disabling can generally be
done in one of two ways: you can delete the entry, comment, or image in
question, or you can allow us to set the entry, comment, or image in question
to non-viewable. <em>Setting an entry's security to Private or screening a
comment is not sufficient to qualify as 'disabling access' under the law</em>,
as this can be undone at any time.</p>
-
-<p>If we do not hear back from you with information about which option you'd
prefer within the length of time we provide for you to select an option
(usually between 24-48 hours), we will assume that you would like for us to set
the entry, comment, or image in question to be non-viewable, and we will do so.
This will not affect the rest of your account.</p>
-
-<p>You then have one of three choices:</p>
-
-<ol><li>You can accept the allegation of infringement, and state that you will
not restore the content, file a counter-notification, or make further
infringement upon the work in the future. If you choose to do this, you must
delete the entry, comment, or image, if you have not already done so. This will
count against you for determination of 'repeat offender' status. If you do not
reply to any of our contact about an alleged infringement within 10 days of our
forwarding the notification, we must assume that you have chosen this
option.</li>
-
-<li>You can state that you do not accept the allegation of infringement, but
you do not want to file a counter-notification or have us restore access to the
allegedly-infringing content. If you choose to do this, we will not restore
access to the entry, comment, or image. This will not affect the rest of your
account. This will not count against you for determination of 'repeat offender'
status.</li>
-
-<li>You can state that you do not accept the allegation of infringement, and
let us know that you want to file a counter-notification under the provisions
of law. If you choose to do this, please see the section below. This will not
count against you for determination of 'repeat offender' status.</li></ol><br />
-
-<p>If you have received a notice of alleged infringement, you <em>may not</em>
re-upload or re-post the allegedly-infringing material, unless you have gone
through the counter-notification process. This applies whether you have deleted
the material yourself, or you have chosen to allow us to disable access to the
material. If you do re-upload or re-post the material, we will be forced to
entirely disable your account.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Counter-Notification</h2>
-
-<p>A counter-notification is a statement, under the provisions of 17 USC
512(g)(3), that you do not believe your content infringes on another person's
rights, or that your use of another person's copyrighted material falls into
one of the protected categories under law.</p>
-
-<p><em>By filing a counter-notification, you are indicating that you are
willing to defend your use of the material in court</em>, if the copyright
owner chooses to bring a lawsuit against you for your use of the material. This
may involve civil and/or criminal penalties. <em>We strongly suggest you
contact an intellectual property lawyer licensed to practice law in your
jurisdiction before you do this</em>, so that you are aware of your rights and
obligations under the law.</p>
-
-<p>There are groups that may help you understand your rights and obligations,
including the <a href='http://www.chillingeffects.org/'>Chilling Effects
Clearinghouse</a>, the <a href='http://www.eff.org/'>Electronic Frontier
Foundation</a>, and the <a href='http://transformativeworks.org/'>Organization
for Transformative Works</a>. We are not affiliated with any of these
organizations, and they may not be able to help you, but their mission and
mandate involves educating people about their rights and obligations under
intellectual property law.</p>
-
-<p>A counter-notification must contain the following items:</p>
-
-<ol><li>Your signature. Signatures may be a physical signature or a digital
signature in a recognized industry-standard format such as PGP.</li>
-
-<li>The URL of your entry, comment, or image that has been called into
question.</li>
-
-<li>A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief
that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or
misidentification of the material. This should include any reasons why you
believe your use of the material is not infringing.</li>
-
-<li>Your name, address, and telephone number.</li>
-
-<li>A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court
where you reside, or (if you live outside the United States) that you consent
to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court where Dreamwidth Studios, LLC is
located (currently Baltimore City, Maryland).</li>
-
-<li>A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who
provided notification of infringement, or that person's designated
agent.</li></ol><br />
-
-<p>Your counter-notification will be provided, in its entirety, to the person
who provided notification of alleged infringement.</p>
-
-<h2>Restoration Process</h2>
-
-<p>When we receive a counter-notification, we will forward it to the person
who made the original notification of alleged infringement. From that point,
the original notifier has 10 business days after receiving the
counter-notification to file an action in court, seeking an injunction against
the use of that material.</p>
-
-<p>If you have provided us with a notification of infringement, and the user
of our service has chosen to file counter-notification, you must inform us that
you have filed court action no more than 14 days after we forward the
counter-notification to you. If you do not, we will re-enable access to the
allegedly-infringing material no less than 10 days, and no more than 14 days,
after we forward the counter-notification.</p>
-
-<p>If you have received a notification of infringement, and you have provided
us with your counter-notification, we will re-enable access to the
allegedly-infringing material, or let you know that you can re-post the
allegedly-infringing material, no less than 10 days, and no more than 14 days,
after we have forwarded your counter-notification to the original notifier.</p>
-
-<p>If you have filed a counter-notification, you <em>can not</em> re-upload or
re-post the allegedly-infringing material until we notify you that the waiting
period has expired. If you do, we will be forced to entirely disable your
account during that time period.</p>
-
-<h2>Repeat Offenses</h2>
-
-<p>US law requires us to disable the accounts of repeat offenders of others'
copyright. What constitutes a repeat offender is not defined by law.</p>
-
-<p>We currently define a repeat offender as anyone who has received five valid
notifications of copyright infringement. Instances where you have filed a
counter-notification, or instances where you have indicated that you do not
accept the allegation of copyright infringement but do not wish to file a
counter-notification, will not count against your account for purposes of
determining 'repeat offender' status. We reserve the right to alter this
definition in the future, at our sole discretion.</p>
-
-<p>We also reserve the right to terminate the accounts of those who, in our
opinion, misuse or abuse the DMCA notification process against other users.</p>
-
-
-PAGE
-
- return $ret;
-}
-_code?>
-<=body
-title=><?_code return $title; _code?>
-head<=
-<?_code return $headextra; _code?>
- <style type='text/css'>
-<!--
-#content ol li {list-style: decimal; margin-left: 3em; }
--->
-</style>
-<=head
-page?>
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d htdocs/legal/principles.bml
--- a/htdocs/legal/principles.bml Tue Oct 05 19:47:51 2010 +0800
+++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-<?page
-body<=
-<?_code
-{
- # Guiding Principles
- #
- # Authors:
- # Janine Smith <[email protected]>
- #
- # Copyright (c) 2009 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
- #
- # This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
- # example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
- # Dreamwidth Studios open-source code, but you cannot use it on your site
- # or redistribute it, with or without modifications.
- #
-
- use strict;
- use vars qw(%GET %POST $title $headextra @errors @warnings);
-
- $title = "Guiding Principles";
- $headextra = "<style type='text/css'>
- ul.spaced li {
- margin-bottom: 1em;
- }
- </style>";
-
- my $ret;
-
- $ret .= <<PAGE;
-<h2>We are committed to:</h2>
-
-<ul class='spaced'><li><strong>Open access</strong>. We will never make it
hard for you to get
-your data back from us or move to a different service if you want
-to. We will provide you with tools to facilitate backing up your data, and we
will
-never try to lock you into using our service in any way.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Interoperability</strong>. We will seek to integrate our service
with
-other services on the Internet, following open standards, to allow you
-to work with other sites as much as you want to.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Open source</strong>. We will release every code change we make
under
-a generally-accepted open source license, aside from internal
-configuration files and anything we are contractually obligated not to
-publish. We will provide details on what code we don't publish, and let
-you know why. We will work with a community of volunteer developers, and
encourage
-and nurture the volunteer development process. We are committed to making it
easy
-for others to install and maintain their own instances of our server code.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Community review</strong>. We will make our development process
and
-our business decisions as transparent as possible, and look for
-community feedback at all stages. While we know we can't please everyone all
the
-time, we know that our users are incredibly diverse, and the ways they use the
-site are just as diverse. We will strive to take your feedback into account as
-much as we can.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Respecting privacy</strong>. We will provide you with tools to
make
-choices about your privacy, and respect those choices at all times. We
-will never sell or trade your private data. We as a company are committed to
-maintaining your privacy and making it easy for you to show your journal and
its
-contents to as many -- or as few -- people as you'd like.</li></ul>
-
-
-<h2>We operate our service under the principles of:</h2>
-
-
-<ul class='spaced'><li><strong>Transparency</strong>: We believe that you
should know why we
-make the decisions we make. We will explain our reasoning as much as
-possible. We will make it easy for you to know as much as you want to
-about what we're doing. We will always err on the side of providing more
information,
-rather than less, whenever possible. At any point, you should feel comfortable
that you
-understand why we're making the choices we're making.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Freedom</strong>: We believe in free expression. We will not place
-limits on your expression, except as required by United States law or to
-protect the quality and long-term viability of the service (such as
-removing spam). We will provide you with tools that make creativity and
-free expression easy. If, at any point, we have to place restrictions on your
-expression, we will tell you why, and work to find the best solutions
possible.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Respect</strong>: We believe in the inherent dignity of all human
-beings. We will never discriminate against any group of people. We will
-work hard to maintain inclusive attitudes, use inclusive language, and
-promote inclusiveness at all times. Our <a
href="$LJ::SITEROOT/legal/diversity">Diversity
-Statement</a> isn't just there so we can pat ourselves on the back. It's there
because
-we believe that our diversity is our greatest strength.</li></ul>
-
-<h2>We will remain advertising-free.</h2>
-
-<p>We won't accept or display third-party advertising on our service, whether
-text-based or banner ads. We are personally and ideologically against
displaying
-advertising on a community-based service. Advertising dilutes the community
experience.
-It also changes the site's focus from "pleasing the userbase" to "pleasing the
-advertisers". We believe that our users are our customers, not unpaid
content-generators
-who exist only to provide content for others to advertise on. We are committed
to
-remaining advertising-free for as long as the site exists.</p>
-
-<p>By "third-party advertising", we mean anything where a company pays us to
show
-their banners, graphics, or text advertisement to our users. We may make
partnerships
-with other sites in order to add features that we don't have the resources for
ourselves.
-If we do this, we will clearly indicate any such features, and we will include
-information in our
-<a href="$LJ::SITEROOT/legal/privacy">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
-
-
-PAGE
-
- return $ret;
-}
-_code?>
-<=body
-title=><?_code return $title; _code?>
-head<=
-<?_code return $headextra; _code?>
-<=head
-page?>
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d views/legal/diversity.tt
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/views/legal/diversity.tt Mon Oct 11 18:59:22 2010 +0800
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+[%# legal/diversity.tt
+ #
+ # Diversity Statement
+ #
+ # Authors:
+ # Janine Smith <[email protected]>
+ # Text by:
+ # The Dreamwidth Community
+ #
+ # Copyright (c) 2009-2010 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
+ #
+ # This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
+ # example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
+ # Dreamwidth Studios open-source code, but you cannot use it on your site
+ # or redistribute it, with or without modifications.
+ #
+%]
+
+[%- sections.title='Diversity Statement' -%]
+
+<p>Platitudes are cheap. We've all heard services say they're committed to
+"diversity" and "tolerance" without ever getting specific, so here's our
+stance on it:</p>
+
+<p>We welcome you.</p>
+
+<p>We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity,
size, nationality,
+sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, elder status, family
structure, culture, subculture, and
+political opinion. We welcome activists, artists, bloggers, crafters,
+dilettantes, musicians, photographers, readers, writers, ordinary people,
+extraordinary people, and everyone in between. We welcome people who want
+to change the world, people who want to keep in touch with friends, people
+who want to make great art, and people who just need a break after work. We
+welcome fans, geeks, nerds, and pixel-stained technopeasant wretches. (We
+welcome Internet beginners who aren't sure what any of those terms refer
+to.) We welcome you no matter if the Internet was a household word by the
+time you started secondary school or whether you were already retired by the
+time the World Wide Web was invented.</p>
+
+<p>We welcome you. You may wear a baby sling, hijab, a kippah, leather,
+piercings, a pentacle, a political badge, a rainbow, a rosary, tattoos, or
+something we can only dream of. You may carry a guitar or knitting needles
+or a sketchbook. Conservative or liberal, libertarian or socialist —
+we believe it's possible for people of all viewpoints and persuasions to
+come together and learn from each other. We believe in the broad spectrum
+of human experience. We believe that amazing things come when people
+from different worlds and world-views approach each other to create a
+conversation. </p>
+
+<p>We get excited about creativity — from pro to amateur, from novels
+to haiku, from the artist who's been doing this for decades to the person
+who just picked up a sketchbook last week. We support maximum freedom
+of creative expression, within the few restrictions we need to keep the
+service viable for other users. With servers in the US we're obliged to
+follow US laws, but we're serious about knowing and protecting your rights
+when it comes to free expression and privacy. We will never put a limit on
+your creativity just because it makes someone uncomfortable — even if
+that someone is us.</p>
+
+<p>We think accessibility for people with disabilities is a priority,
+not an afterthought. We think neurodiversity is a feature, not a bug. We
+believe in being inclusive, welcoming, and supportive of anyone who comes
+to us with good faith and the desire to build a community. </p>
+
+<p>We have enough experience to know that we won't get any of this perfect
+on the first try. But we have enough hope, energy, and idealism to want to
+learn things we don't know now. We may not be able to satisfy everyone, but
+we can certainly work to avoid offending anyone. And we promise that if we
+get it wrong, we'll listen carefully and respectfully to you when you point
+it out to us, and we'll do our best to make good on our mistakes. </p>
+
+<p>We think our technical and business experience is important, but we
+think our community experience is more important. We know what goes wrong
+when companies say one thing and do another, or when they refuse to say
+anything at all. We believe that keeping our operations transparent is just
+as important as keeping our servers stable. </p>
+
+<p>We use the service we're selling, and we built it because we wanted
+it ourselves. We won't treat people as second-class undesireables
+because they're non-mainstream or might frighten advertisers. We don't
+have advertisers to frighten. To us, you're not eyeballs. You're not
+pageviews. You're not demographic groups. You're people.</p>
+
+<p>Come dream with us.</p>
+<br />
+<p style="float:right; text-align:right;"><a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/";>
+<img alt="Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0" style="border-width: 0;"
src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png"; />
+</a><br /><em>This document is usable under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA
license.</em></p>
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d views/legal/dmca.tt
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/views/legal/dmca.tt Mon Oct 11 18:59:22 2010 +0800
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+[%# legal/dmca.tt
+ #
+ # Dreamwidth DMCA Policy
+ #
+ # Authors:
+ # Denise Paolucci <[email protected]>
+ #
+ # Copyright (c) 2009 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
+ #
+ # This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
+ # example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
+ # Dreamwidth Studios open-source code, but you cannot use it on your site
+ # or redistribute it, with or without modifications.
+ #
+%]
+
+[%- sections.head = BLOCK %]
+<style type='text/css'>
+#content ol li { list-style: decimal; margin-left: 3em; }
+</style>
+[% END -%]
+
+[%- sections.title='Dreamwidth DMCA Policy' -%]
+
+<p>The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and specifically the
provisions located at <a
href='http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html'>17
USC 512</a>, set forth the steps an online service provider such as [%
site.name %] must follow in the event of copyright infringement on their
servers.</p>
+
+<p>We believe that the DMCA takedown process is a powerful tool that can help
copyright holders protect their intellectual property from being exploited. We
also believe that the DMCA takedown process is a powerful tool that is
frequently misused to force a chilling effect on legitimate and legal speech.
Our enforcement policy is an attempt to prevent the worst abuses of this
process that we've seen over the years, while still upholding our legal
obligations and protecting copyright holders from the misuse of their
intellectual property.</p>
+
+<p>This is a complicated process, and the law surrounding it is unclear in
many situations. We've tried to make this as readable as possible. If you have
any questions that aren't covered here, please <a href='[% roots.site
%]/support/submit'>contact us</a> with your questions.</p>
+
+<p>None of this material should be construed as legal advice. We cannot advise
you on how to protect your rights online, either your rights as a copyright
holder or your rights as someone accused of copyright infringement. If you are
in need of legal advice, contact a lawyer who is licensed to practice in your
jurisdiction.</p>
+
+<h2>Notification of Copyright Infringement</h2>
+
+<p>If you believe that someone on [% site.name %] has violated your copyright,
you may send us a Notification of Copyright Infringement. For us to process
such a notification, it must substantially comply with the requirements set
forth in United States law. To speed our handling of your notification, please
make sure it complies with the following criteria:</p>
+
+<ol><li>Notifications may be submitted to [% site.nameshort %]'s Registered
Agent in one of three ways. You may send it via email (no attachments, please)
to <b>[% email.coppa %]</b>; you may send it via fax to <b>319-856-3598</b>; or
you may send it via physical mail to <b>38 S Paca St #217, Baltimore, MD,
21201</b>. We prefer to receive notification via email or fax.</li>
+
+<li>Notifications must be signed by the copyright holder or the copyright
holder's designated agent. Signatures may be a physical signature or a digital
signature in a recognized industry-standard format such as PGP. Unsigned
notifications will not be processed.</li>
+
+<li>Notifications must specifically identify the copyrighted work being
infringed upon. For instance, if the work is a published book, provide the
title, author, and ISBN; if the work is a magazine article, provide the title,
author, magazine name, and magazine issue; if the work is available on the
Internet, provide the URL of the work.</li>
+
+<li>Notifications must specifically include the URL where the work is being
infringed upon [% site.nameshort %]'s servers. For us to be able to reasonably
identify the material, you must provide us with the complete URL, not a link to
the entire journal. For instance, instead of http://username.[% domain.site %]
(a link to the entire journal), provide http://username.[% domain.site
%]/123.html (a link to the specific entry).</li>
+
+<li>Notifications must include sufficient information for us to contact you,
including your address, your telephone number, and your email address.</li>
+
+<li>Notifications must contain a statement that you have a good faith belief
that the use of the material in this manner is not authorized by the copyright
owner(s), their agent, or the law.</li>
+
+<li>Notifications must contain a statement that the information in the
notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is allegedly being
infringed.</li>
+</ol><br />
+
+<p>Your notification will be forwarded, in its entirety, to the owner of the
account posting the allegedly-infringing content. We reserve the right to make
copies available to third parties, such as the <a
href='http://www.chillingeffects.org/'>Chilling Effects Clearinghouse</a>, as
we see fit, for purposes of academic study and legal review.</p>
+
+
+<h2>Takedown Process</h2>
+
+<p>When we receive a properly-formatted notice of copyright infringement, we
will forward it to the account owner and provide a limited amount of time to
disable access to the allegedly-infringing content.</p>
+
+<p>If you have received this notice from us, this disabling can generally be
done in one of two ways: you can delete the entry, comment, or image in
question, or you can allow us to set the entry, comment, or image in question
to non-viewable. <em>Setting an entry's security to Private or screening a
comment is not sufficient to qualify as 'disabling access' under the law</em>,
as this can be undone at any time.</p>
+
+<p>If we do not hear back from you with information about which option you'd
prefer within the length of time we provide for you to select an option
(usually between 24-48 hours), we will assume that you would like for us to set
the entry, comment, or image in question to be non-viewable, and we will do so.
This will not affect the rest of your account.</p>
+
+<p>You then have one of three choices:</p>
+
+<ol><li>You can accept the allegation of infringement, and state that you will
not restore the content, file a counter-notification, or make further
infringement upon the work in the future. If you choose to do this, you must
delete the entry, comment, or image, if you have not already done so. This will
count against you for determination of 'repeat offender' status. If you do not
reply to any of our contact about an alleged infringement within 10 days of our
forwarding the notification, we must assume that you have chosen this
option.</li>
+
+<li>You can state that you do not accept the allegation of infringement, but
you do not want to file a counter-notification or have us restore access to the
allegedly-infringing content. If you choose to do this, we will not restore
access to the entry, comment, or image. This will not affect the rest of your
account. This will not count against you for determination of 'repeat offender'
status.</li>
+
+<li>You can state that you do not accept the allegation of infringement, and
let us know that you want to file a counter-notification under the provisions
of law. If you choose to do this, please see the section below. This will not
count against you for determination of 'repeat offender' status.</li>
+</ol><br />
+
+<p>If you have received a notice of alleged infringement, you <em>may not</em>
re-upload or re-post the allegedly-infringing material, unless you have gone
through the counter-notification process. This applies whether you have deleted
the material yourself, or you have chosen to allow us to disable access to the
material. If you do re-upload or re-post the material, we will be forced to
entirely disable your account.</p>
+
+
+<h2>Counter-Notification</h2>
+
+<p>A counter-notification is a statement, under the provisions of 17 USC
512(g)(3), that you do not believe your content infringes on another person's
rights, or that your use of another person's copyrighted material falls into
one of the protected categories under law.</p>
+
+<p><em>By filing a counter-notification, you are indicating that you are
willing to defend your use of the material in court</em>, if the copyright
owner chooses to bring a lawsuit against you for your use of the material. This
may involve civil and/or criminal penalties. <em>We strongly suggest you
contact an intellectual property lawyer licensed to practice law in your
jurisdiction before you do this</em>, so that you are aware of your rights and
obligations under the law.</p>
+
+<p>There are groups that may help you understand your rights and obligations,
including the <a href='http://www.chillingeffects.org/'>Chilling Effects
Clearinghouse</a>, the <a href='http://www.eff.org/'>Electronic Frontier
Foundation</a>, and the <a href='http://transformativeworks.org/'>Organization
for Transformative Works</a>. We are not affiliated with any of these
organizations, and they may not be able to help you, but their mission and
mandate involves educating people about their rights and obligations under
intellectual property law.</p>
+
+<p>A counter-notification must contain the following items:</p>
+
+<ol><li>Your signature. Signatures may be a physical signature or a digital
signature in a recognized industry-standard format such as PGP.</li>
+
+<li>The URL of your entry, comment, or image that has been called into
question.</li>
+
+<li>A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief
that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or
misidentification of the material. This should include any reasons why you
believe your use of the material is not infringing.</li>
+
+<li>Your name, address, and telephone number.</li>
+
+<li>A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court
where you reside, or (if you live outside the United States) that you consent
to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court where [% site.company %] is
located (currently Baltimore City, Maryland).</li>
+
+<li>A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who
provided notification of infringement, or that person's designated agent.</li>
+</ol><br />
+
+<p>Your counter-notification will be provided, in its entirety, to the person
who provided notification of alleged infringement.</p>
+
+<h2>Restoration Process</h2>
+
+<p>When we receive a counter-notification, we will forward it to the person
who made the original notification of alleged infringement. From that point,
the original notifier has 10 business days after receiving the
counter-notification to file an action in court, seeking an injunction against
the use of that material.</p>
+
+<p>If you have provided us with a notification of infringement, and the user
of our service has chosen to file counter-notification, you must inform us that
you have filed court action no more than 14 days after we forward the
counter-notification to you. If you do not, we will re-enable access to the
allegedly-infringing material no less than 10 days, and no more than 14 days,
after we forward the counter-notification.</p>
+
+<p>If you have received a notification of infringement, and you have provided
us with your counter-notification, we will re-enable access to the
allegedly-infringing material, or let you know that you can re-post the
allegedly-infringing material, no less than 10 days, and no more than 14 days,
after we have forwarded your counter-notification to the original notifier.</p>
+
+<p>If you have filed a counter-notification, you <em>can not</em> re-upload or
re-post the allegedly-infringing material until we notify you that the waiting
period has expired. If you do, we will be forced to entirely disable your
account during that time period.</p>
+
+<h2>Repeat Offenses</h2>
+
+<p>US law requires us to disable the accounts of repeat offenders of others'
copyright. What constitutes a repeat offender is not defined by law.</p>
+
+<p>We currently define a repeat offender as anyone who has received five valid
notifications of copyright infringement. Instances where you have filed a
counter-notification, or instances where you have indicated that you do not
accept the allegation of copyright infringement but do not wish to file a
counter-notification, will not count against your account for purposes of
determining 'repeat offender' status. We reserve the right to alter this
definition in the future, at our sole discretion.</p>
+
+<p>We also reserve the right to terminate the accounts of those who, in our
opinion, misuse or abuse the DMCA notification process against other users.</p>
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d views/legal/index.tt.text.local
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/views/legal/index.tt.text.local Mon Oct 11 18:59:22 2010 +0800
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+.diversity-header=Diversity Statement
+
+.diversity<<
+The Diversity Statement outlines our pledge to create an environment
+where anyone may feel comfortable participating, regardless of
+physical or cultural circumstances.
+.
+
+.dmca-header=[[siteshort]] DMCA Policy
+
+.dmca<<
+Our DMCA Policy explains how to send us a DMCA takedown notice and
+describes how we respond to claims of copyright infringement.
+.
+
+.principles-header=Guiding Principles
+
+.principles<<
+Our Guiding Principles describe the philosophy of our service and
+the commitments and core values of the site's owners.
+.
diff -r f2c72ec39b4f -r 222bb7e9271d views/legal/principles.tt
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/views/legal/principles.tt Mon Oct 11 18:59:22 2010 +0800
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+[%# legal/principles.tt
+ #
+ # Guiding Principles
+ #
+ # Authors:
+ # Janine Smith <[email protected]>
+ #
+ # Copyright (c) 2009 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
+ #
+ # This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
+ # example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
+ # Dreamwidth Studios open-source code, but you cannot use it on your site
+ # or redistribute it, with or without modifications.
+ #
+%]
+
+[%- sections.head = BLOCK %]
+<style type='text/css'>
+#content ul li { margin-bottom: 1em; }
+</style>
+[% END -%]
+
+[%- sections.title='Guiding Principles' -%]
+
+<h2>We are committed to:</h2>
+
+<ul><li><strong>Open access</strong>. We will never make it hard for you to get
+your data back from us or move to a different service if you want
+to. We will provide you with tools to facilitate backing up your data, and we
will
+never try to lock you into using our service in any way.</li>
+
+<li><strong>Interoperability</strong>. We will seek to integrate our service
with
+other services on the Internet, following open standards, to allow you
+to work with other sites as much as you want to.</li>
+
+<li><strong>Open source</strong>. We will release every code change we make
under
+a generally-accepted open source license, aside from internal
+configuration files and anything we are contractually obligated not to
+publish. We will provide details on what code we don't publish, and let
+you know why. We will work with a community of volunteer developers, and
encourage
+and nurture the volunteer development process. We are committed to making it
easy
+for others to install and maintain their own instances of our server code.</li>
+
+<li><strong>Community review</strong>. We will make our development process
and
+our business decisions as transparent as possible, and look for
+community feedback at all stages. While we know we can't please everyone all
the
+time, we know that our users are incredibly diverse, and the ways they use the
+site are just as diverse. We will strive to take your feedback into account as
+much as we can.</li>
+
+<li><strong>Respecting privacy</strong>. We will provide you with tools to
make
+choices about your privacy, and respect those choices at all times. We
+will never sell or trade your private data. We as a company are committed to
+maintaining your privacy and making it easy for you to show your journal and
its
+contents to as many -- or as few -- people as you'd like.</li></ul>
+
+
+<h2>We operate our service under the principles of:</h2>
+
+
+<ul><li><strong>Transparency</strong>: We believe that you should know why we
+make the decisions we make. We will explain our reasoning as much as
+possible. We will make it easy for you to know as much as you want to
+about what we're doing. We will always err on the side of providing more
information,
+rather than less, whenever possible. At any point, you should feel comfortable
that you
+understand why we're making the choices we're making.</li>
+
+<li><strong>Freedom</strong>: We believe in free expression. We will not place
+limits on your expression, except as required by United States law or to
+protect the quality and long-term viability of the service (such as
+removing spam). We will provide you with tools that make creativity and
+free expression easy. If, at any point, we have to place restrictions on your
+expression, we will tell you why, and work to find the best solutions
possible.</li>
+
+<li><strong>Respect</strong>: We believe in the inherent dignity of all human
+beings. We will never discriminate against any group of people. We will
+work hard to maintain inclusive attitudes, use inclusive language, and
+promote inclusiveness at all times. Our <a href="[% roots.site
%]/legal/diversity">Diversity
+Statement</a> isn't just there so we can pat ourselves on the back. It's there
because
+we believe that our diversity is our greatest strength.</li></ul>
+
+<h2>We will remain advertising-free.</h2>
+
+<p>We won't accept or display third-party advertising on our service, whether
+text-based or banner ads. We are personally and ideologically against
displaying
+advertising on a community-based service. Advertising dilutes the community
experience.
+It also changes the site's focus from "pleasing the userbase" to "pleasing the
+advertisers". We believe that our users are our customers, not unpaid
content-generators
+who exist only to provide content for others to advertise on. We are committed
to
+remaining advertising-free for as long as the site exists.</p>
+
+<p>By "third-party advertising", we mean anything where a company pays us to
show
+their banners, graphics, or text advertisement to our users. We may make
partnerships
+with other sites in order to add features that we don't have the resources for
ourselves.
+If we do this, we will clearly indicate any such features, and we will include
+information in our
+<a href="[% roots.site %]/legal/privacy">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
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