Wikimedia legal overview: 2014-03-19
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Mission-Driven LawWMF Legal and
Wikimedia’s global mission
Luis Villa, Deputy GC
About us
12 projects
70,000 monthlycontributors
500,000,000 readers a month
~ 160 employees
six lawyers,one paralegal,
one tiger
our mission
“empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally” (link)
“empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”
“empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”
“empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”
“empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally”
legal supports all of those
“empower … people … to develop educational content”
fight for content creators
protect privacy
developproducts
aidcommunity
“empower … to collect”
public domain
fairuse
advocacy
“around the world”
jurisdiction!
WikipediaZero
censorship
globalorganizations
“under afree license”
freeculture
freesoftware
“effectively”
trademark™
Terms of Use
nuts and bolts
Image attributions in order of useUnder CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted
● Couverture-wikimedia, from many sources● Wikimania 2013 Group Photograph, by
Qweaz● Geoff_Brigham_1, Villa,_Luis_4.11.2013,
and Michelle_Paulson_009, by Myleen Hollero
● Stephen_LaPorte, by Matthew (WMF)● Welinder,_Yana_June_2013, and
Voinigescu,_Andrei_Nov_2013, by Myleen Hollero
● Daisy_Chen-2, by Matthew (WMF)● Rory_Tiger_(7), by Matthew Roth, under
CC BY-SA 2.0● Courtroom, by Fayerollinson● Paper_bag_mask_with_4chan_smiley_at_Anon
_raid, by THERKD● HumanizingArticles_new, by Vibhabamba● Legal_I_talk,_Lecture_Theatre_TU201,
_Hong_Kong_Polytechnic_University_-_20130810-05, by Smuconlaw
● Cinderella1819, scan of work in the public domain
● Fawiki_licensing_tutorial_with_fair_use, by Mmxx
● European_Commission_flags, by Sébastien Bertrand
● Nairobi_-_Wikipedia_Zero_-_258A0346, by Omaranabulsi
● Soviet_censorship_with_Stalin2, scan of works in the public domain
● Wikimedia_chapters, public domain● Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_
(by), by tyler.stefanich, under CC BY 3.0 US
● Richard_stallman, by boro● Cocacola-5cents-1900, scan of work in
the public domain● Civil_War_Red_Tape_01_
(redeemed_CSA_bond_coupons), by Godot13, National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution
● Tightening_the_bolts_at_Turbine_No_24_-_geograph.org.uk_-_798160, by Paul Anderson
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