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Subject: Re: Moderation: Question for Steven Schwartz

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 15:13:23 04/10/00

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On April 10, 2000 at 17:47:50, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 10, 2000 at 15:46:36, Pete Galati wrote:
>[snip]
>>I agree.  I mean, I wouldn't like the moderators _not_ to be _able_ to play it
>>by ear at all anymore, there should be some fleibility about how the job is
>>done, otherwise it would become completely intolerable.  But a guidlines for
>>moderators should exist, and cover those copywrite issues.
>>
>>I think this is so obvious that I'm really amazed that such a thing doesn't
>>exist.  Why not?
>
>The charter contains all the guidelines that the moderators need.
>
>The moderators are not responsible for a poster doing something that is illegal.
>
>The moderators should not be expected to be well versed in international
>copyright law.  Indeed, there are surely many thousands of books on that subject
>alone, and the decisions would require many CD's.
>
>After a moderator becomes aware of a fault, then action should be taken.  The
>list of possible infractions is infinite.  There is no way possible to be
>constantly on top of every conceivable scenario.
>
>Again, for illegal actions, liability rests solely upon the originator.  This
>also is contained in the charter.

So is CCC itself completly absolved of any wrong doing as far as copywrite
violations by it's members goes?

What you say about the general copywrite laws being too complex to present in
any complete form makes sense, but I rough condensed "for dummies" version might
be helpfull, not something written for only lawyers to understand.  Is that
posible, or would it be too vague and full of holes.  Something less than 25
pages?  Maybe such a publication allready exists.

Pete



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