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Originally Posted by MsCheyenne
It reads as if webhosts will be exempt from 2257, in regard to maintaining a copy of the model's docs. Couldn't review sites, directory guides with galleries and tpgs, simply set up as a webhost and give their sponsors a free website? Could this also be an avenue to promote affliate programs that don't have free hosted galleries without everyone having to send a copy of their docs?
It is just a raw idea. What do you think?
Cheyenne
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If the owner of the review site (now host) itself had no editorial input on the sponsors "free" sites, this could probably work, however, this is a very grey area.
When I was running my freehost I thought this same thing... that I would be exempt. After talking to no less than three attorneys on the matter, I was presented with three virtually different opinions - none of which made me feel warm and fuzzy. Though it states hosts are exempt, (and remember it doesn't differeniate between paid or free), most freehosting scripts provide an easy method of including headers / footers and deleting / editing account holders pages. That said, this "editorial ability" could be used as the "who does not manage" loophole built into the proposed changes.
In simpler terms, paid hosts and bannerless freehosts should / will be ok but it could be argued, (I doubt successfully, but who the hell knows), that any host that in anyway displays advertising on a page could be held responsible for the content of the entire page.