User Generated content (UGC) Principles
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:22pm
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Something to pay attention to, some big companies are trying to pass some new principles to protect copyright infringements in sites that host UGC (youthcommons would qualify as one). Some of this requirements are quite complex.
http://www.ugcprinciples.com/
Electronic Freedom Frontier response:
http://www.eff.org/issues/ip-and-free-speech/fair-use-principles-usergen
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1. Lance Bennett | November 5th, 2007 at 5:19 am
This is quite burdensome. Let’s monitor it, but proceed with an editorial guideline that leads the editorial team to watch for obvious violations. I think that this whole issue will shake down around some standard of fair use.
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