On 4/20/07, Nicholas Moreau nicholasmoreau@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/B...
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