Brianna Laugher wrote:
Therefore I propose that we (Commons community) ask the Legal department to create and fill a permanent position known as something like "Commons liaison officer" (CLO). Their job will be to mediate requests for copyright advice between Commons and the juriwiki mailing list/Legal department. Hopefully we could have a turn-around of about two weeks on any given issue.
I hope this would be considered appropriate for the Legal department, because Commons is handling the vast bulk of media copyright issues, unlike text copyright issues which are spread almost everywhere else.
This would significantly blur the line between the Foundation and the community, and (for the obvious reasons) almost certainly make the Foundation legally liable for copyright violations without anything like the elasticity that we currently enjoy. I would strongly counsel against it, but then I'm sure the legal group is aware of the issues anyway.
Yours sincerely, -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james@jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester@hotmail.com