[Foundation-l] Texts deleted on French Wikisource

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Jun 4 09:44:12 UTC 2010


David Gerard wrote:
> Yep! You want to write a first draft of a guide? I'm sure the EFF or
> someone like that will have something suitable to start with.
>
> We can't have a lawyer employed by the WMF look over it, but we have
> lots of lawyers amongst the volunteers.
>   

An important point; we musn't force the WMF lawyer into a conflict of 
interest
>> The current situation is completely different than the NPG situation,
>> which involved only bogus threats, not a legally binding takedown notice.
>>     
> Indeed. If they had issued a takedown notice, someone could have
> responded with "it's not bogus. I am this person at this address. Make
> my day."
>
>   
It really feels good to be able to say "Make my day."  More of us should 
try it.

Ec




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