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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€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago (10 children)

We raised the point with @buyeuropean@feddit.org some time back.

It seems like German law requires you to have an Impressum page for every website posted. He used the company they had to do so, as it was easier from a liability perspective. The answers he provided were considered good enough at the time by the !buyeuropean@feddit.uk mods.

Ping @Lazycog@sopuli.xyz, @Sunshine@lemmy.ca, @Emperor@feddit.uk

Not too sure about the funding and legal aspects.

[โ€“] SrMono@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (9 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€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

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

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