Hi Nick,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicholas Moreau</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:nicholasmoreau@gmail.com">nicholasmoreau@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Perhaps this isn&#39;t the best time to create a legal entity around<br>Wikimedia Canada.<br><br><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070419.wwikipedia0420/BNStory/Technology/home">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070419.wwikipedia0420/BNStory/Technology/home
</a><br><br>Could this guy add us to his lawsuit, even though we have no control<br>over the content of the site, even less so than the Wikimedia<br>Foundation does? Under US law, the Foundation is fine if they comply<br>
and take down offending content at request of the offendee, but we&#39;d<br>be under Canadian law, and I don&#39;t know if like provisions exist.</blockquote><div><br>I think there are similar provisions in Canadian law to protect us, should we actually get to the point where we are hosting servers and such. But we should really cross that bridge when we come to it.
<br><br>Since we are a chapter of WM, and not content servers even, I don&#39;t believe he has grounds to add us to such a suit at this time.<br><br>In fact, it is an excellent time to start a chapter, since he can&#39;t (seriously) argue that we libeled him _prior_ to our creation.
<br><br>There will of course always be such risks, of course. It is important to recognize they exists, but not let them chill our effort to bring knowledge to all.<br><br>Gerald.<br></div></div>