[Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

Mon Dec 12 18:11:45 UTC 2011

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the WMF should not have relied on a US lawyer alone. Perhaps a
>> team associating a US lawyer with a continental Europe lawyer would
>> have been better.
>>
>
> Your notion that we just had some American lawyer with no international
> working experience draft the terms is incorrect. For the sake of ease,
> I'll
> quote from the mailing list announcement with details about our General
> Counsel:
>
> "A little more about Geoff's background: Most recently, Geoff
> was Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel at eBay. There, he directed
> legal affairs in more than 15 countries throughout North America, Europe,
> Asia and Australia, encompassing litigation, copyright and trademarks,
> privacy, ethics, product and site content review, policy and regulatory
> compliance, new market advice, contracts, governance and site security.
>  Previously he worked for eBay in Bern, Switzerland for four years as
> Vice-President & Senior Director, and in Paris, France for two years as
> Senior Compliance and Litigation Counsel."
>
> I'll add that Geoff relocated here to the WMF from Paris, where he was
> living when we hired him.
>
> Steven

Impressive!

Fred