On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Denise Paolucci wrote: @> We're still working out the legal issues surrounding copyright, @> control-of-content, and implicit licensing, which is what the @> potential sticking point for import of comments happens to be. (In @> other words: *you* can give us permission to import *your* content @> from LJ, because you're the owner of that content; you might not be @> able to give us permission to import *someone else's* content, aka @> their comments.) I, personally, am of the opinion that there's enough @> implied license in submitting a comment to someone else's journal @> that it shouldn't be a large liability, AS LONG AS we retain the @> ability for the 'owner' of the content to still have the same level @> of control/manipulation that they had over the content on LJ.
The other step to take here might be to ensure that the import tool has a legal disclaimer saying, basically, that if you use the tool to import other people's comments, it's your responsibility to make sure they're okay with you doing that. That onus shouldn't really be on the OSP. _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
