Philip Welch wrote:
On Jun 4, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Wait untill you see some try to claim you can't deleted stuff claimed as fair use becuase that consitutes giving legal advice.
[[WP:BEANS]] ;-)
Doesn't apply becuase it has already been tried:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia_talk:Copyright_problems#A_proposal
Simply giving legal advice is not the practice of law. Practice would require doing it as some kind of business.
It's still against the rules to give legal advice for free, because the rules are made by lawyers, and lawyers' business is giving legal advice.
There's such a thing as taking this to extremes. The way you put it if two beer buddies sit down and discuss their latest parking tickets they could be illegally driving lawyers into starvation. In practical terms, even though lawyers write the rules they are not turned on unless they can smell money.
Ec