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Originally Posted by Shaggy
So you are saying that in your interpretation of copyright law, it is everyone's responsibility to research the copyright status of the target of a link (which they haven't seen yet), every time they click their mouse. Under that interpretation, I would bet that almost everyone on the internet is guilty of copyright infringement.  |
Yes. And that too is the interpretation of sites such as Project Gutenberg. Do you believe otherwise?
Just stop and consider for a moment. What actually is the alternative? That every web server in the world must contain complex code to check the copyright status of all downloads in every country in the world? Not a terribly practical idea, is it?