On 8/9/11 10:27 AM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
A more typical arrangement would be that the WMF would give a chapter the right to use WMF trademarks, and in return a portion of the funds raised by the chapter would be funneled back to the WMF. But what chapters seem to want is for the WMF to sign over the trademarks they need to do their own fundraising, and then simply hand over a portion of the WMF's own revenue on top of that. It's a convenient arrangement for the chapters involved, to be sure, and apparently one that the WMF was not particularly unwilling to follow; but there's nothing particularly "normal" or "fair" about it.
Just to be clear, this is more or less the model that I personally advocate: that the WMF turn over a portion of its revenue to chapters every year, without question, based on a simple and non-controlling framework of accountability and responsibility.
--Jimbo