So but what happens if we got money to set up servers in Canada, much
as non-Chapters have done elsewhere.
For example, there is Yahoo in Korea, Lost Oasis/Jexiste in
France/Luxembourg/Switzerland, Kennisnet in the Netherlands. If you
try and access Wikipedia in those countries, your likely getting the
information sent to you from those local servers, instead of the Tampa
machines.
Nick
On 4/20/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/20/07, Nicholas Moreau
<nicholasmoreau(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps this isn't the best time to create a
legal entity around
Wikimedia Canada.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070419.wwikipedia0420/…
Could this guy add us to his lawsuit, even though we have no control
over the content of the site, even less so than the Wikimedia
Foundation does? Under US law, the Foundation is fine if they comply
and take down offending content at request of the offendee, but we'd
be under Canadian law, and I don't know if like provisions exist.
No. Never.
It needs to be VERY clear in the bylaws and in any kind of
communication issued by the chapters that they are NOT the host of the
projects and have NOTHING to do with the content.
This is the reality today, and the reason why Wikimedia has chosen to
make chapters independant organisations rather than subisdiaries, so
that the Foundation would not have to be subject to different sets of
laws.
Delphine
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