At 11:33 AM 11/19/03 -0500, Alex T. wrote:
From: "Poor, Edmund W"
<Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com>
Okay, Alex. You're the lawyer, you formulate
the policy.
It is very frustrating for a jurist to be told that others do not want to
discuss things, even though IAAL, this is NALO (not a legal opinion).
Thank you. My reaction, when I saw Ed's post, was that yes, you're
a lawyer, which means that _once we decide what we want to do, you're
likely best qualified to sort out how we should phrase it_. Not that you
should make the decisions of what--it didn't take a lawyer to decide that
we want to create an excellent free encyclopedia, for example.
We should still work on these things together and not
create an "legal"
ghetto of lawyer/volunteers in Wikimedia land. Law does not have to
be that stuff that those guys write up that take over our lives, this is
exactly why some many corporations/millionaires have captured the
legistlative process, "public-spirited artists" just seem to let it happen
and they wake up after it is all done. I'd rather be a media artist/lawyer
activist (actually that is sort of what I am at times).
I hope it includes a section on "how to
communicate politely but firmly
with apparently accidental GFDL infringement".
It definitely will and I nominate Ed to write it.
And I volunteer to look it over once he, or someone, has, and fiddle
with commas, noun/verb agreement, and the like.