On 7/11/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 7/4/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
On 7/4/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
"Having an employee make ad-hoc, arbitrary and speculative pronouncements on the law without a clear policy from the Board to back it up probably puts the entire project into greater peril than the obvious silliness of the more ignorant copyright violators."
For the record, Ray, Jeff, Eric and Anthony are not employees of the Foundation.
I am, and I hope you do not have a problem with the idea of a paid general counsel having as one of his primary responsibilities the generation of 'speculative pronouncements on the law.' That is rather the point. My client, my ethical obligation, and the recipient of my professional legal advice is the Board. It's my bar card on the line. It is not my job to wax eloquent on the law for the sake of making people on a listserv have more to rant about.
Thanks for including the word "probably" in the statement above, btw. I'd hate to think you were taking a position without leaving yourself rhetorical wiggle room. That would probably' be silly as well.