Brianna Laugher wrote:
Therefore I propose that we (Commons community) ask
the Legal
department to create and fill a permanent position known as something
like "Commons liaison officer" (CLO). Their job will be to mediate
requests for copyright advice between Commons and the juriwiki mailing
list/Legal department. Hopefully we could have a turn-around of about
two weeks on any given issue.
I hope this would be considered appropriate for the Legal department,
because Commons is handling the vast bulk of media copyright issues,
unlike text copyright issues which are spread almost everywhere else.
This would significantly blur the line between the Foundation and the
community, and (for the obvious reasons) almost certainly make the
Foundation legally liable for copyright violations without anything like
the elasticity that we currently enjoy. I would strongly counsel against
it, but then I'm sure the legal group is aware of the issues anyway.
Yours sincerely,
--
James D. Forrester
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