Okay, I did revert that policy change, but only for now. I need to decide on a strategy here. There are really three options to considering the content ownership issues from TVT:
(A)ttack: Start sending the DMCAs of their clearly illegal content ownership policy. There have been several CC license violations here, enough to terminate their license.
(R)etreat: Just let them claim ownership, and go off and do our own thing.
(I)gnore: Just pretend their idiocy isn't happening, and represent the actual facts of what the TVT copyright situation is, regardless of what Eddie and Fighteer think they are.
All of these actions have consequences, and the dialog box only has these three options. Unless people see something else.
The problem with Attack is that it can quickly lead into a MAD situation, where we undermine everyone's license to use the copyright -- we might get far enough along to destroy both sites, or at least huge chunks thereof. Because TVT never asks consent ever -- even for the CC-BY-SA we use, this is a possible outcome.
The problem with Retreat is that we're ignoring our own author's rights -- and everyone else's. I never intended my pages to be licensed under a noncommercial license, and they're distributing it that way anyway.
The problem with Ignore is that the situation doesn't really go away, and the copyright issue get even more thorny with time over at TVT. People will be completely confused, and the situation may escalate anyway. And we're still not asserting our rights.
Anyone have advice on this, moving forward?
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(A)ttack: Start sending the DMCAs of their clearly illegal content ownership policy. There have been several CC license violations here, enough to terminate their license.
(R)etreat: Just let them claim ownership, and go off and do our own thing.
(I)gnore: Just pretend their idiocy isn't happening, and represent the actual facts of what the TVT copyright situation is, regardless of what Eddie and Fighteer think they are.
All of these actions have consequences, and the dialog box only has these three options. Unless people see something else.
The problem with Attack is that it can quickly lead into a MAD situation, where we undermine everyone's license to use the copyright -- we might get far enough along to destroy both sites, or at least huge chunks thereof. Because TVT never asks consent ever -- even for the CC-BY-SA we use, this is a possible outcome.
The problem with Retreat is that we're ignoring our own author's rights -- and everyone else's. I never intended my pages to be licensed under a noncommercial license, and they're distributing it that way anyway.
The problem with Ignore is that the situation doesn't really go away, and the copyright issue get even more thorny with time over at TVT. People will be completely confused, and the situation may escalate anyway. And we're still not asserting our rights.
Anyone have advice on this, moving forward?
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