[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Time to Seek Professional Lawyers Advice?

[Anthere]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 04/09/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 9/4/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Just what *is* the status of {{PD-Soviet}}? Is it bogus or not? Having
>>>a bunch of wiki users vote on legal status doesn't strike me as
>>>legally sound ...
> 
> 
>>IMO, as an educated layman, {{PD-Soviet}} is bogus.
> 
> 
> 
> It seems a little ... odd. But the educated layman argument is another
> wiki user vote. I'm asking what the Foundation's actual stated policy
> on whether they're leaving themselves open to this or not is. That is,
> a legal opinion, and not just any legal opinion but *our* legal
> opinion. Hence asking on foundation-l.
> 
> (And that would suggest writing to juriwiki-l, but that unfortunately
> seems to be a write-only list in practice.)
> 
> 
> - d.


Errrr. Afaik, anyone can write to juriwiki-l. This avoids legal issues 
getting lost in the noise of this list. Well, in any cases, to be 
certain an issue is noticed, you may put brad patrick in copy of any 
mails of this type. Note that Brad is on holidays for the full week.

ant