I Hope This Blog Post Isn't Used As Evidence Against Me In Court

Given my plan to set up a database for storing raw input to Scaffold, something on my mind has been what legal red-tape I may eventually run into.

To be perfectly honest, I am not sure what the legal implications are of storing published content that I do not own on a server whose contents I manage. On one hand, this is a not-for-profit open source application. On the other hand, this could definitely present issues if I were interested in the eventual implementation of accounts that could store and access previously Scaffold-ed content. Which, for the record, I am interested in since I believe it would be exceptionally helpful for users conducting research and information compilation across multiple sessions.

As a bonus thought exercise: if I were to use a corpus containing copy-righted documents to train an ML model what are the resulting limitations on my use of the model?

Down the line, I'll certainly revisit investigating the legality of article storage and access for users  before embarking on the development of any features that would suck to have to immediately roll back due to litigation. To be clear, I also seriously care about not screwing over the content providers, even if unintentionally.

For now, I think I am safe being primarily concerned with first getting to the point where Scaffold is useful and well-liked enough to be worth suing over.