I've got something of a dilemma developing on some of the mailing
lists I maintain, and was wondering if anyone here has faced a similar
situation.
I maintain some lists for professional sports teams in the UK. I run
these lists in California. (Rangers football club, Scottish football)
Some members of the lists have occasionally posted copyrighted
material. My intro statement for members strongly discourages this,
but I do not manually approve all postings, nor do I attempt to
censor after the fact.
One of the publishers has recently requested that I stop all copyrighted
material from going to the list, with the veiled threat of criminal
action.
I don't want to moderate the list, I do not have the time. So, I
can't effectively prevent the list members from posting, I can only
retroactively unsubscribe them (but does such a retroactive unsubscribe
open me up for any legal liability? I'd be censoring list members,
and isn't this similar to what Prodigy did?)
Any experience with this? Any opinions?
--
James C. Armstrong, Jr. | "Using Windows NT, which is known to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | have some failure modes, on a warship
| is similar to hoping that luck will
| be in our favor." Anthony DiGiorgio,
| on the US Navy's decision to use
| Windows NT instead of UNIX.
