On 21 February 2010 11:15, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Legal decision should be taken out from project's communities >> "jurisdiction" and given into hands of professional lawyers or at >> least people who had copyright law practical training. >> > > While I don't agree that we need to take this away from the community > and hand it to a team of lawyers, I must say that the "practical training" > caught my eye. > > Would it be possible for the Foundation to get Mike--and other people > who actually know what they're talking about--to get a "guide to > handling copyright questions" together? It would probably help a lot of > people who are unclear on some points, as well as help remove some > grey areas (like the scenario that brought us here now). This may be a > terrible idea, but I'm just throwing it out there. > > -Chad
Not really. Mike is a US lawyer. I'm not sure how much it would cost to get enough lawyers to put together say: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama but I doubt it would be practical. Commons does have a number of help pages: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Problematic_sources and en of course has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
