copyright / copyleft, was: Re: [Imc-uk-process] [Fwd: [Imc-europe] watch out for the reuters bot]

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Hi

On Wed 31-Mar-2004 at 10:49:24PM +0100, ionnek wrote:
> from imc-europe:
> 
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> 
> At Indymedia NL we don't accept (c) articles for several
> reasons, but other IMC's do. Now, Reuters is deploying a
> bot to search for these articles. Either you can block
> this bot, or you will have to delete all these Reuters
> articles, when you will get an e-mail from them. I don't
> know if they fill demand some money, or ask you friendly
> to delete the articles. This e-mail is just to warn ppl
> in advance. Robin.

I don't know if the blocking could ever keep up... I guess
we could try...

Sometime we should have to have a discusion about the
issue of copyright on the site... the open content stuff
we reference is out of date.

See here for some stuff on this:

  © Copyright / Copyleft Issues

  Some IMCs like Galiza require that all content posted to
  the site complies with the GNU Free Documentation
  License (FDL) whereas many others reference the Open
  Content License (OCL). The Open Content web site has now
  been shut (but past versions are available via the
  wayback machine) and it's creator recommends that people
  use a Creative Commons license instead. Italy IMC uses
  this note: "©opyright :: Independent Media Center. All
  content is under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
  1.0"

  The FreeDistro page that has more notes and thoughts on
  the issues of copyright and the reuse of content on
  Indymedia.

  http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcLegal#_Copyright_Copyleft_Issues

Chris