[wdvltalk-social] Michael - if you are still about...

[joseph harris]

;-) Watching legal discussions is fun! Everyone is very 
sensitive though to risks of Big Brother state, and there is 
a move to control....

The net, being a publication platform, faces all the 
dilemmas of print publication, and is probably more akin to 
newspapers than books. Amazon has shown how that can work 
for the retailer, but the retailer also becomes publisher; 
and that has its hazard, as the social sites are aware ;-).

But defining any of this to even understand how to control 
it all seems distant; that I think he succeeded in pointing 
out. On the other hand from copyright protection - in any IP 
area - the need to be able to have some way to prevent 
breach has become the most difficult of all. The biggest 
problem in this so far is the attempted Googlesteal!

Joseph

From: "michael ensor"
> He puts a lot of emphasis on the "repeat" provision.
>
> If I dictate a letter to a typist that constitutes 
> publication,
> however in the internet world each access is a publication
> so if I place content on a web page once, and it is 
> accessed
> 6000 times there are 6000 publications.......so much for
> "repeats".....
>
> and anyway the real objection is the absence of 
> evidentiary
> standard. Incidentally the EU rejected a similar proposal, 
> strange that :)
> - you may assume that this was not a home grown 
> solution......
>
> As he points out however even the US resiled from that 
> solution....
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "joseph harris"
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [wdvltalk-social] Michael - if you are still 
> about...
>
>
> : Michael,
> :
> : I passed the comment on and this is what's been done to 
> it
> : 
> http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/content/repeat-infringers-reflections-new-zealand-internet-blackout
> :
> : ;-) As you see he doesn't really agree... But his advice
> : (yes, he's a barrister) seems to be that it is a bit of 
> an
> : oozlum-foozlum and would disappear into its own 
> definitions.
>
>
>
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