LegalPolicy/meeting20090929

Legal &amp; Policy Meeting for September 29th, 2009

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?

Supplemental Info

 * Current draft of our Citation Policy:
 * http://open.umich.edu/wiki/CitationPolicy


 * Wikimedia's "Public Domain - Ineligible" tag
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-ineligible

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?