I wouldn't call DMCA safe harbor(s) "how Wikipedia is allowed to exist". At a glance I'd say it would (at worst) impact on some (most) wikis way to handle copyvios/the thin red line around fair-use, but most of our ecosystem shouldn't be affected. So, what am I missing?
Vito 2016-12-19 17:45 GMT+01:00 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > For various reasons * I follow music industry news. One drum the record > industry has been beating *hard* in the past year is attempts to reduce the > DMCA "safe harbor" provisions in order to squeeze more money from YouTube. > It's been a running theme through 2016. > > e.g. > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/music- > industry-battling-google-youtube-what-happens-next > http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7624389/ > music-industry-congratulates-trump-open-letter > > The DMCA "safe harbor" is otherwise known as "how Wikipedia is allowed to > exist". > > so! Is this on our threat radar? Do they have any hope? How close are we to > another "call your Congressman" banner? > > (I figure this is not a good time to say things like "well that could never > happen politically") > > > - d. > > > * well, to write schadenfreude-dripping posts on rocknerd.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
