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Frankly I find the disclaimer disturbing: > I do not claim to be the owner of any content related to this course. If you are the rightful owner of this content
by niuzeta 12y ago
Frankly I find the disclaimer disturbing:
> I do not claim to be the owner of any content related to this course. If you are the rightful owner of this content and wish to have it removed, please contact me (<email omitted>)
It is clear that this github repository is to serve no purpose but a rehost, of a copyrighted content(it is open in a sense that it is freely available, but the copyright still belongs to the PG and so on.). While a mirroring is an acceptable contribution to a freely available content, sometimes even encouraged, I've always figured that an accepted approach is to inquire-then-serve, rather than the opposite.
Another problem is that the disclaimer that is supposedly to protect against claims of infringement, proudly calls for the original owners to action, if in case of infringement. Does this mean that this mirror will stay unless the original author spends effort in hunting down these mirrors?
Judging from the email address, I think the guy's heart was at a right place(just because it is an university address) and just wanted to help sharing the good knowledge. Hopefully the share may be moved to more appropriate way.
- kyro 12y agoI think Sam et al are more than capable of sending an email to this guy if they take issue.
- niuzeta 12y agoI know, and that's besides the point. What I meant was that if he wanted to mirror, why didn't he send an email first? If there are hundreds of mirrors/rehost of your content, would you have to track down every one of them and contact them yourself? The disclaimer is essentially claiming for a permission until requested otherwise, and moreover, putting the responsibility to the content owner. If the owner doesn't have time to track down every instance, it's his responsibility. Of course it doesn't really matter for online contents, but the guy is feigning respect to the content owners; what he's doing is nothing of it.
- kyro 12y agoEasier to ask for forgiveness, etc.