Angela (beesley@gmail.com) [050613 06:48]:
For those not following the progress of the other chapters, the French Wikipedia has had a little trouble recently related to the President of their chapter deleting an article following legal threats about it. This action was highly controversial, despite him feeling it was backed up by their chapter's bylaws. Their bylaws state that they are legally the representatives of the Foundation in France, and therefore they do have legal responsibility for the content. In hindsight, this is looking more and more like a bad idea, and I would strongly advise future chapters to avoid such clauses. Having the chapter separate from the actual projects is a much safer and simpler approach. This also goes for legal ownership of any hardware in the UK, and possibly even the UK domain names.
How likely is a UK judge to decide this is legally bogus and that the UK foundation is just pretending not to be part of the US organisation, should a sufficiently rabid UK litigator show up? (I've just been researching [[Fair Game (Scientology)]], so excuse any paranoia ;-)
- d.