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Excellent. I wish you well, of course. I'm not a guy who personally believes in intellectual property, so I wasn't trying to cast any aspersions on your projec
by dtby 17y ago
Excellent. I wish you well, of course. I'm not a guy who personally believes in intellectual property, so I wasn't trying to cast any aspersions on your project.
I didn't figure that you were claiming copyright over any one else's material. I just wasn't sure that removal after the fact was sufficient to avoid legal troubles for "reproducing" their works without permission.
I expect that the vast majority of the content producers will be pleased to see their works live on. I admit to not having checked out the site itself: are you going to provide them means to keep the pages updated, as well? Under similar terms to their Geocities pages.. whatever those were?
- jacquesm 17y agoThat's definitely an option, see below.
- anApple 17y agoIt depends on what country you reside. In the USA, UK, Israel etc, you have a fair use clause and you might be allowed of doing it. In other countries, alone the fact that you are storing the content (without publishing it) is blatant theft.
- alain94040 17y agoIt's highly unlikely that fair use would apply here, since the amount of copied work is 100% of the original. This is not using a small excerpt for edudcation purposes... That being said, a DMCA notice on the site would protect the content provider. The way it works is that if you have a copyright claim against the site, they have a duty to take it down when you inform them. As long as they respect that, they are pretty much covered.