[Foundation-l] Wimimedia Radio WAS:RE: Legal positionofaudiorecordings of GFDLcontent?

Thu Apr 24 22:00:39 UTC 2008

David Gerard wrote:

> 2008/4/24 Cormac Lawler <cormaggio at gmail.com>:

>>   I
>>  still have a question, however (which Brian and others have been
>addressing
>>  on Wikinews): will this be a project independent of Wikimedia servers (a
>la
>>  Wikipedia Weekly), will it be a project aligned to a particular
>Wikimedia
>>  project, or will it be a separate Wikimedia project?

I see no reason to do this outside the auspices of the WMF. The path may
involve outside servers to do analysis and pilot work, but the final aim
should be something integrated with the WMF infrastructure.

That means following NPOV where possible, so a lot of the "talking heads"
stuff people seem to think would get done is out.

>1. What's its anticipated server CPU and bandwidth load?

No idea. Will ask around.

>2. What legal system will it be under, and what are the regulations
>for web radio stations under that system?

I'd assume the same as any other WMF project; I've no intention of starting
up "Radio Free Belgium" for this. Since that means Florida law, I'm not sure
of the legal issues, I do suspect the worst would be convincing people we
didn't have to pay for use of commercial music.

Brian McNeil