Re: [Haskell-cafe] black Wikipedia

Actually, it is a battle between the Hollywood and Silicon Valley industries. Hans On 19 Jan 2012, at 00:11, John Meacham wrote:

And such a thing can take months or years for the courts to figure out, and unless your free site has a lawyer to fight for your side, under SOPA/PIPA you can be down the entire time with little recourse. For anyone hosting content lke hackage, github, etc. when you have thousands of packages, someone somewhere is going to be upset by something and will be able to take the site down. _regardless of the merit of their case_ the site will go down as they figure it out. Not only that, they would be able to take the site down if it contains a link to an objectionable site. for instance, if one of the homepage fields in some cabal file somewhere pointed to a site that someone took offense too on it. we would not only be obligated to patrol the code uploaded, but the targets of any urls within said code/description... and retroactively remove stuff if said links change to contain objectional material. (for a very vauge definition of objectionable). it is a really messed up law.

John

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:

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On 18 Jan 2012, at 23:11, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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There is the Beastie Boys case, where the judge decided copyright protects what is creatively unique.

But such judgments are rare, sadly. And for every Beastie Boys case there's at least one The Verve case.

I did not know that. But it was a UK case, wasn't it? - UK copyright laws are a lot more tight.

Hans