Re: Copyright and paranoia
Lassi Kortela 17 Jun 2024 14:14 UTC
> Over the years, there have been proposals in legislatures in Europe, the
> US, and even the UN to make it easy to seize domains over copyright
> claims. Even in Europe, where privacy rights are often more strictly
> enforced, exceptions are often proposed that would require servers to
> scan all documents for copyright violations on the part of their users,
> a clear violation of privacy rights. Even now, copyright holders have
> the power to shut sites down in many places just by alleging violation,
> and the presumption is in their favor. So I wouldn't take risks.
Good call.
> How does this sound? Should we set up such redirects?
>
> That sounds great. That still gives the publishers power, which is what
> this is all about.
To minimize risk, we could favor redirects to PDFs hosted at publisher
or university domains.