[Foundation-l] Wikinews - Licensure straw poll

Wed Aug 31 23:53:50 UTC 2005

> One should not because it can matter. Say you made an illegal death
> threat against someone in your city, but you did it by posting it to a
> web site hosted in some country where that's not illegal. Which law
> would apply to you? If you do something illegal in your city/country
> the law applies to you there in addition to any laws from the country
> which hosts the web site if it has agreements with your country. Same
> thing with copyright, the editors need to abide by their laws, or
> there may consequences in their country, and they need to abide by the
> laws in Florida, USA or there may be consequeces for at least the
> Foundation, if not the editor.
> Dori

Not to mention avoiding fair use materials made German DVD edition
much easier to make.

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