At 11:33 AM 11/19/03 -0500, Alex T. wrote:
From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com
Okay, Alex. You're the lawyer, you formulate the policy.
It is very frustrating for a jurist to be told that others do not want to discuss things, even though IAAL, this is NALO (not a legal opinion).
Thank you. My reaction, when I saw Ed's post, was that yes, you're a lawyer, which means that _once we decide what we want to do, you're likely best qualified to sort out how we should phrase it_. Not that you should make the decisions of what--it didn't take a lawyer to decide that we want to create an excellent free encyclopedia, for example.
We should still work on these things together and not create an "legal" ghetto of lawyer/volunteers in Wikimedia land. Law does not have to be that stuff that those guys write up that take over our lives, this is exactly why some many corporations/millionaires have captured the legistlative process, "public-spirited artists" just seem to let it happen and they wake up after it is all done. I'd rather be a media artist/lawyer activist (actually that is sort of what I am at times).
I hope it includes a section on "how to communicate politely but firmly with apparently accidental GFDL infringement".
It definitely will and I nominate Ed to write it.
And I volunteer to look it over once he, or someone, has, and fiddle with commas, noun/verb agreement, and the like.