Angela (beesley(a)gmail.com) [050613 06:48]:
For those not following the progress of the other
chapters, the French
Wikipedia has had a little trouble recently related to the President
of their chapter deleting an article following legal threats about it.
This action was highly controversial, despite him feeling it was
backed up by their chapter's bylaws. Their bylaws state that they are
legally the representatives of the Foundation in France, and therefore
they do have legal responsibility for the content. In hindsight, this
is looking more and more like a bad idea, and I would strongly advise
future chapters to avoid such clauses. Having the chapter separate
from the actual projects is a much safer and simpler approach. This
also goes for legal ownership of any hardware in the UK, and possibly
even the UK domain names.
How likely is a UK judge to decide this is legally bogus and that the UK
foundation is just pretending not to be part of the US organisation, should
a sufficiently rabid UK litigator show up? (I've just been researching
[[Fair Game (Scientology)]], so excuse any paranoia ;-)
- d.