[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

Same thing than with wikisource,

wouldn't it be better to set up a session about it on IRC and on Skype ? 
For example, next Sunday.

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

Any File wrote:
> Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
>>> So an organization cannot, without permission of government-sanctioned
>>> bodies, send people to observe and report on events?  We're not talking
>>> about official government press passes here (the U.S. analog is
>>> state-issued passes), simply a piece of paper that indicates the person
>>> in question has the sanction of Wikinews to report on their behalf.
>>> People are free to ignore that piece of paper of course, and demand
>>> something government-issued, but are you saying that the mere act of
>>> issuing that piece of paper is illegal,
>> I am just saying that not only can it be illegal, but also that it will
>> certainly engage the liability of the foundation.
>>
>> Unions accreditating journalists will certainly be mad at it (as in
>> France), and it would picture the foundation as a liable editor rather
>> as a not-liable publisher.
>>
> 
> Would make thing easier if the the word journalist is never used?
> What the matter if a person is just accredited as external
> (unprofesional) collaborator?
> 
> Form Italian laws being unprofessional there is no need to be register
> (actualle there is not the need to pay the fee to be register) as
> journalist and being declared that is an external collaborator (and
> not an employed by the newsagency) should limit very much any action
> againt the comunity or the foundaton.
> 
> By the way wikinews editor act just exactly like an external
> unprofessional collaborator. The only difference is that they made it
> for free and that there is not  a editor-board approvation (actually
> this last point is not irrivelant)
> 
> About an eventual legal reponsability of the foundation a possible
> (but unfortunately not free of charge) solution would be to required
> accredited Wikinewsers to have an insurance to cover their civil
> responsabilities and foundation civil responsabilities.
> 
> As for any other thng like this it would very interesting to know what
> legislation is in acts (since every country could claim that their own
> legislation should be consider valid).
> 
> AnyFile
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