[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Geoff Brigham
new Legal and Community Advocacy Department. Details for the IRC chat can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be

[Foundation-l] Amicus Brief Filed in Golan v. Holder: Fighting for the Public Domain

2011-06-22 Thread Geoff Brigham
law that so threatens our public domain - not only with respect to the particular works at issue but also with respect to the bad precedent such a law would set for the future. We anticipate the Court will reach a decision sometime before July 2012. -- Geoff Brig

[Foundation-l] Feedback Tools

2011-07-26 Thread Geoff Brigham
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Feedback [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar [4] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy -- Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 941

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Draft Terms of Use for Review

2011-09-08 Thread Geoff Brigham
safeguard a site like ours, such as disclaimers and limitations on liability. Thank you in advance for your review and comments. Your input will be invaluable. Geoff -- Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6750

[Foundation-l] Draft Terms of Use for Review

2011-09-08 Thread Geoff Brigham
Nathan, Theo, You guys raise good questions (as always). Short answer is that hosting liability is not compromised, and I think Steven responded to the harassment policy inquiry. That said, may I suggest that you put your points on the discussion page as you see them, and we will answer more com

[Foundation-l] Loriot

2011-11-11 Thread Geoff Brigham
Dear Bjoern, Thank you for your well-reasoned thoughts. We have taken down the images in Loriot for legal reasons, and we will post our basis shortly. Regards, Geoff Geofrrey Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list

[Foundation-l] Loriot

2011-11-14 Thread Geoff Brigham
lly by tomorrow). -- Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 93, Issue 27

2011-12-12 Thread Geoff Brigham
a lot of work went into it and > > subsequent testing. > > > * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously > wrongly rotated and were fixed by the feature? > * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously > correctly rotated and were messed up

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-24 Thread Geoff Brigham
, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > I would like to thank Geoff Brigham for the excellent job he did analysing > the consequences of SOPA for wikipedia. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Legal_overview > > Would it be possible to analyse ACTA in a simil

[Foundation-l] Draft Legal Policies - Wikimedia Foundation

2011-05-19 Thread Geoff Brigham
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Legal_Policies Geoff Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l