Sorry for reading this so late: I know he was at Wikimania (right?), so
did you manage to take advantage of him for Wikisource? :-)
There's a very nice initiative of WM-SE with Europeana, discussed in the
cultural partners list, which made available some legal help for all
sorts of tough copyright issues; is this a permanent and effective help
for Wikisource (and maybe other projects?) and for which jurisdictions?
Nemo
Kelly Kay, 15/05/2012 22:03:
I am happy to announce that effective today,
Stephen LaPorte is
joining the Foundation as legal counsel in the Legal and Community
Advocacy team! Stephen has been interning with us for a semester,
and we're thrilled that he's staying onboard. We went through a
very competitive interview process and he was by far the best
candidate for the role. One of the criteria for this role was that
the candidate be a Wikimedian, and Stephen fits that neatly. *As a
volunteer, he enjoys de-orphaning articles and cleaning up dead-end
pages on the English Wikipedia. He also proofreads on the English
Wikisource. He started contributing to Wikipedia in 2008 after
working on [[w:Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve]] for a class project.*
You'll have the chance to meet him at the Berlin Hack-a-thon, or at
Wikimania this summer. *A little bit of background on Stephen: he
studied English and Latin at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and
law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He
is interested in copyright, privacy, and trademark law. During law
school, he worked on the Hastings Communication and Entertainment
Law Journal.*
Stephen will be helping out with contracts, content/community
questions/issues, trademark approvals & licensing, trademark
enforcement, and other general matters that come up for lawyers.
Stephen will report to me.
This was an extremely competitive process, and we're very lucky to
have him join us.
Kind Regards,
Kelly
--
Kelly Kay
Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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