[Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

Sat Jul 16 08:20:45 UTC 2011

I agree 100% with this.
Some people on Wikimedia want to enforce copyright much beyond what is
reasonable.
This is hurt us, and is outside of our mission.

Yann

2011/7/13 Wjhonson <wjhonson at aol.com>:
>
> Links by themselves are not copyrightable, and are not unfree.
> So your argument, which you keep repeating is not germane to this point.
> The point is, the copyright police have taken a fear (of something which has never occurred in actual law), and made it a point of battle.
>
> We are arbiters of information content, should not be acting as the police and judge over what is on YouTube.
> We cannot know is something loaded is under copyright or not and should not be attempting to know.
> It's none of our business.
> Our business should be merely to decide what is useful for our project.
>
> The links themselves, I repeat, are free.  The point of contention is whether a link by itself IS a copyright violation.
> And on the presumption that it MIGHT be (which is itself ridiculous) our project suffers immense harm by a handful of ummmm persons.
>
> All that is beside the point, my point, which is that a link cannot be a copyright violation, and cannot be licensed.