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Legal & Policy Meeting for September 29th, 2009

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[edit] Agenda

  • Disclaimer and ToU review
  • Discuss merits/legal attractiveness of the wikimedia model (tagging everything with its copyright status)
    • We discussed in the previous meeting talking with Wikimedia Foundation: Greg has contact info for the GC from the Wikimedia Foundation (Mike Godwin, of Godwin's Law fame)
    • What questions do we want to ask? (See below for some draft questions)
  • Other items?

[edit] Supplemental Info

[edit] Draft questions for Wikimedia Foundation's GC

Feel free to add more

  • How did the PD-ineligible tag come about, from the community or otherwise? (community is my guess, it is wikimedia)
  • What was the foundation's reaction to the tag, if any?
  • As the tag is still in use, has the foundation made any special considerations around it (keeping an eye on the contributions with the tag, coming to an internal agreement wrt a risk assessment, etc)?
  • How would the foundation react to Open.Michigan uploading hundreds of PD-ineligible images to commons.wikimedia.org? How would the community react?
  • Our images will mostly be ineligible due to very low creative expression/authorship reasoning, should that be mentioned in the file description or even create a new specific PD-ineligible tag (such as the PD-shape, PD-chem options already available).
    • One possibility would be a PD-histology tag for histology images.
  • How have content holders reacted to the PD-ineligible tag? For example, we will post x-rays that very well may have copyright notices from Elsevier. Do they respect Elsevier's claim of copyright until proven otherwise?

[edit] Notes

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