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Hi, quick question about the website, which is evolving quite fabulous.

The page is operated and sponsored by a German company Hanseatic Bits UG (haftungsbeschrรคnkt) & Co. KG .

I'm wondering: what the philosophy behind the project is? How is the funding taking place? What will happen to the crowd-sourced data and the joint effort? Don't get me wrong, but putting effort in a closed source database that belongs to a company, which then claims the copyright of said database (German Urheberrecht), is something I would like to discuss upfront.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes, If youโ€™re using a website commercially youโ€™re obliged to have an Impressum. Iโ€™m no lawyer but a pure database without affiliate links shouldnโ€™t be commercial, yet.

Anyhow I would like to hear some words from the project team about funding and commitment and the general idea.

After all you could have things open sourced, or found non-profit organizations. Many ways of dealing with that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

From the Matrix chat, @[email protected]

I will write a reply and then we have something on lemmy to refer to as wellโ€ฆwill do so the next days.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's not just for commercial websites, any website that provides any kind of content is subject to Impressumspflicht. AFAIK strictly private/personal websites are exempt in theory, however in Germany it's a fun pastime for asshole lawyers to automatedly search the web for websites w/o impressum and extort some bucks off some poor granny's recipe blog, so it's better to be safe than sorry. And since people generally don't want to put their full private address on the web and most don't have have a postbox or something like that, I totally get why they'd use the company for simplicity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for chiming in

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yea, I'm discussing that with my partner - an author - all the time. When does her blog starts to be commercial, when do people begin to be content providers? I guess in case of moderated contents (social media) and communities, there is no gray area anymore. Anyhow discussing the Impressumpflicht is just a detail and a little bit derailing.

Since they've chosen to use the firm, there are other questions at hand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that as soon as there is a anything on the website that could (even just in theory) help you make a single cent, it's considered commercial. Any ad banner, an affiliate link or in case of your author partner a link to their books on amazon or wherever is probably enough to be considered commercial. I honestly wouldn't take any risk there, especially as an author. 1 single hater is enough to cost you up to 5kโ‚ฌ.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks. We got that covered. She already has an Impressum and you can hire an Impressum service. My blog however, with journey impressions and profanity, has no Impressum.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Feddit.org isn't commercial, but has an Impressum too: https://feddit.org/legal