- From: casays <casays@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:27:57 -0000
- To: public-bpwg-comments@w3.org
>My understanding is that transcoding falls under fair-use provisions. >It might not if you're doing sneaky stuff like profiting from the >content via ads or something. Let us sort this out. First, transcoding is not even a term in the guidelines. What you are suggesting is that recoding and optimizing fall under fair-use doctrine, whereas restructuring does not. I personally could live with that. Note the statement in 4.3.6: "In the absence of a Vary or no-transform directive (or a meta HTTP-Equiv element containing Cache-Control: no-transform) proxies should apply heuristics to the response to determine whether it is appropriate to restructure or recode it." A suitable heuristic therefore seems to be: if presence of a meta-tag copyright, then no restructuring. A no-transform directive, if proxies follow the guidelines and the HTTP standard, excludes all three kinds of transformation. However, there are still cases 2.b and 2.c in my comments to take into account, which might be affected by recoding. >So I don't think a copyright statement is equivalent to no-transform >directive, to begin with. They are not equivalent; no-transform is stipulated by a standard and has a technical scope. A copyright notice has legal implications. E. Casais
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