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I don't believe there are any realistic copyright issues in making these
transfers, nor that the GDPR will affect that area for groups. Technically,
every time you send a reply by email (or via a group web page) quoting all or
part of the original message you are in breach of the sender's copyright. This
has been the case ever since email was invented. Have you been sued for it yet?

The GDPR is primarily about protecting personal data, which roughly means
anything by which a person may be identified. The nature of groups means that
email addresses are distributed to members by email whenever anyone posts a
message, so the data protection needed for that purpose appears not to be a
problem either. It certainly isn't changed by a transfer from Yahoo.

What may be a problem is the exporting of any other personal information (as in
the profile) from a server in the EU to one in USA, and possibly also being
able to show how such information is protected (or why it doesn't need to be).

Another possible problem is the requirement for the platform, or maybe the
groups, to show they have the permission of the member to send them emails.
That clearly is no problem with people joining directly, but may be with
transfers. That's one for the lawyers to sort out.

I've no doubt there may be more that's relevant, but most of this legislation
is aimed at companies like banks, and possibly the likes of Facebook and
Google, which handle large volumes of much more personal and important data. I
have a copy of the full legislation, but it's huge and complex (and the fines
for getting it wrong are also huge). I haven't had time to do more than glance
through it, and I'm not a lawyer. However, I'm sure the copyright issue is not
a serious problem with regard to this particular legislation.

I'm certainly intending to transfer my Yahoo groups over here.

Jim Fisher

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