Talk:Wikilegal/Copyright Status of Wikipedia Page Histories

Res ipsa loquitur[edit]

The page history speaks to the previous copyright infringement, if it is removed, there is no evidence of the infringement, or the infringing parties.

The routine expunging would reduce the effective rights of rightsholders. (Non standard use of the phrase, I know.)

Rich Farmbrough 00:19 20 June 2014 (GMT).

Revdel copyvios?[edit]

The question of copyright violation when a back-up or dump, or a copy of a back-up or dump is made

Nothing about distributing said back-up or dump, which the Wikimedia Foundation acctually do.

It would seem unlikely that any of these actions, with the possible exception of creating a mirror or fork, would be capable of sustaining a claim of financial loss.

That "possible exception" is exactly the problem.

Pinging Jrogers (WMF) for possible comment, since I've talked with you on another matter before, and general counsel GeoffBrigham (WMF).

Shouldn't redacting revisions when possible DMCA's and other instances of known copyvios be done, to avoid us distributing copyvios in datadumps? It might be ok to create these dumos, but to distibute...? Am I missing something here? Josve05a (talk) 00:10, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This page only discusses United States copyright law, but content users may be subject to the laws of other countries. The page therefore seems to be insufficient for determining if the page history needs to be deleted.

The exemptions from the United States copyright law seem to be a lot more vaguely defined than the exemptions from other copyright law, meaning that there are a lot of situations where it is unclear if a page is in violation of United States copyright law or not, although determining if the page is in violation of the laws of other countries may be a lot easier. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The last section[edit]

The last section, as well as the last paragraph of the preceding section, were apparently added not by members of the legal team, but by an anonymous user (whose IP address also geolocates to a different continent) [1]. What are the implications of this? Uanfala (talk) 17:45, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]