On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:06:11 -0600, Malcolm wrote:
Yes, perhaps some examples of actual sites/links/whatever that are potential problems to require a change to the status quo.
I would concur. The only time I could see an issue coming up is if the copyright owner objected to the usage of the material. While I'm not a lawyer, it seems to me that anyone other than the copyright owner wouldn't have standing to object to it, and I believe the legal principle of "standing" would apply in most if not all jurisdictions.
Jim () I. In General: If there is no complaint there is no in most cases and jurisdiction no process [1] (with e. g. the exception of criminal charges in what in most jurisdictions an other principle is ruling). II. A principle similar to your described 'standing'[2]exists e. g. in
Am 26/01/11 22:34, schrieb Jim Henderson: the German jurisdiction and is named there Klagebefugnis or more special as part of the Klagebefugnis the (die) Beschwer[4]. III. In German law (and probably in the systems of law that are likely to that [5] the focus is lying more on the individual/natural person (individuum) that has created the work than on the commercial right to publish that content ('copyright').[6] IV. If the authors of the openSUSE Weekly News want to publish their work under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) - why not. In my opinion that would have many advantages. But I do not see much advantage according to the possibility/thread of possible complaints because of violating any copyright/creator's rights. For that an effective hold-harmless agreement or indemnification clause or insurance may make sense (but I do not know who should pay for it [in case]): The creation of a juristic person/legal entity for openSUSE foundation, union/society [de: Verein]) may help there in the long term. [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispositionsmaxime including: "nullo actore, nullus iudex" [2] and similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_%28law%29 [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klagebefugnis [4] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beschwer [5] compare: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechtskreis [6] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Urheberrecht#.C3.9Cbertragbarkeit_des... Regards Martin (pistazienfresser) -- - openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org