The Trust Legal Provisions give everyone the right to "to copy, publish,
display and distribute unmodified portions of IETF Contributions and
IETF Documents". That seems pretty clear to me. They have to attribute
it properly. And they have to keep our legends. (Which they may not
have gotten quite right, and is one of the things the trust will need to
make sure they do get right.)
Given that the wording says "portions", I do not see that we can
complain about their copying several portions.
If the community wants to change that, then it needs to say so. As far
as I know, these have been the rules for quite some time.
Yours,
Joel
On 6/16/19 4:18 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 6/16/19 1:26 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
I think there are two separate issues.
First, the way they structured their profile, they were making
verbatim quotes, and then putting there own text around taht. As far
as I can tell, in terms of our copyright rules, we have said they have
the right to do that. I believe the trust will have to tell them that
they have those rights.
I'm not sure that's actually true. What's fairly clear (for various
reasons) is that they are free to reproduce the document in its
entirety. It's not clear (to me at least) that they are free to
produce derivative works. As for quoting, they may have some right to
do that in the US under fair use doctrine, but only for specific
purposes and within certain boundaries. And the boundaries of fair use
are for the courts to decide, not the trust.
Keith
