Court rulings have elaborate reasoning on how they come to their conclusion. Would be nice if we could have something like that when public goods like the Internet Archive are under pressure. For all of us to have a better understanding of the law, rights, and consequences.
That is the whole point if a settlement though. It is outside the reach of rhe court that both parties agree to a certain resolution.
It may very well be the case that IA was offered a substantially smaller settlement sum, but only under the consition that the exact sum is not publizised so that it would bot become part of settlement sum reasoning in possible future court cases.
Confidentiality in such a case is so stupid.
Court rulings have elaborate reasoning on how they come to their conclusion. Would be nice if we could have something like that when public goods like the Internet Archive are under pressure. For all of us to have a better understanding of the law, rights, and consequences.
That is the whole point if a settlement though. It is outside the reach of rhe court that both parties agree to a certain resolution.
It may very well be the case that IA was offered a substantially smaller settlement sum, but only under the consition that the exact sum is not publizised so that it would bot become part of settlement sum reasoning in possible future court cases.
Right, sounds like intentionally blinding the public