--- Jeremy Dunck <jdunck(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I know there's been a lot of discussion about
making a WP 1.0 of
reviewed articles, but what do people think of giving out a DVD of
current text for donations over, say, $50?
This would be whatever's current at a point in time, with no guarantee
about the content accuracy.
I know there'd be some initial hardware cost for a mass burner and
some admin overhead, but I can see the point that donating to a
service is something done a little skeptically.
Good idea, but tricky. The Wikimedia Foundation is considered to be an ISP/online service
provider
instead of a publisher right now. ISPs and online service providers are generally not
liable for
illegal, slanderous, libelous, wrong, and/or dangerous material posted by users of that
ISP.
However, a publisher *can* be held liable for things it publishes and if the foundation
created a
DVD, then it would be a publisher. Best that that would be taken care of by another
organization,
even if it is one we create ourselves.
In the meantime, I see much less potential harm in local chapters coordinating that type
of thing
with publishers who are willing to assume that risk. The German chapter did this. We could
then
ask our legal department about what risk the foundation would be subject to if it gave
away DVDs
created in that way as part of a fundraiser.
-- mav
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