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Chris,<br>
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two separate issues here:<br>
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1. Whether some of the data is held in violation of any laws, such as
DMCA in the US. This would already be the case for the Underdogs site.
Issues are not necessarily clear and well-defined, esp. not the
liability of anyone taking the data from the present owners of the
site. I think it's virtually certain that the present owners will not
indemnify anyone taking the data, but on the other hand, the issues
were already there.<br>
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2. Totally separate from that, any entity taking on the task of hosting
or archiving the data will want to document the transfer of ownership
and the terms of the transfer. This is an issue for institutions, for
sure.<br>
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Neither of these is a barrier to transfer to an institution. They are
issues that need to be sorted out. In fact, the transfer deed can be
handled in a matter of minutes if a donor is eager and willing.<br>
<br>
Henry<br>
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Chris Lepine wrote:
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face="Helvetica" size="3">If the legality of file storage is a
concern, I have a private host with 600gb of storage available that I
would be happy to offer as (at least) a temporary or long-term storage
solution. Access to the storage would be easy to manage, and if the
metadata became available it would also work as a web host for it.</font></div>
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can only *hope* that Sarinee kept a backup of the site/mysql databases.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">We may well be able to host if we can get
hold of it. I'll check that out with my boss, but it's close enough to
the work we are doing to make a case for it, if we can get an idea of
the scale of hosting needed (and given we are an HE institution, there
would be hoops to jump through to keep our legal people happy that
everything there was legit)</div>
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