Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Legal department/Archives/2014
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Proposed Terms of Use Amendment
Dear WMFLaCAT, You recently proposed an amendment with this premise: (It is necessary because) "Contributing to the Wikimedia Projects to serve the interests of a paying client while concealing the paid affiliation has led to situations that the Wikimedia community considers problematic." Since this is a submission by your team, I am requesting some clarification. What are three specific situations that were considered problematic by the community and how exactly will this amendment help if that same situation occurred with the TOU amendment in place? Please do not answer with nothing but a link to another page or a link to some other discussion elsewhere. If you do not wish to answer or cannot think of the situations that prompted this amendment, then say so. Thesteve (talk) 21:26, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Proposal to update CC license tags to comply with the new wordings in CC deeds
There is a discussion in Commons, to update CC license tags to comply with the new wordings in CC deeds. In that discussion we faced many difficulties to find the correct legal terms especially in providing attribution. Now the "Media Viewer" is launched; and it uses "file name" as "title" of the work. It seems it is a common practice in MidiaWiki software. But "title" of the media files is a different concept. So we need to know whether it can be followed or a separate field need to be set up to handle "title"? Please look on other points too. Jee 15:46, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Malware typosquatting
Apparently the site Eikipedia.org ("E" is right next to "W" on the keyboard") is a malware site hoping to catch people that accidentally visit them instead of us. Does the legal staff take actions on matters like this?AioftheStorm (talk) 01:26, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- Hello AioftheStorm: thank you for reporting this -- I will investigate. The most direct way to report these cases is by sending me an email at legal-tm-vio@wikimedia.org. Thanks, Stephen LaPorte (WMF) (talk) 04:48, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you, in the future if I have need to contact you again I will do that.AioftheStorm (talk) 17:02, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Mailer-Daemon: trademarks@wikimedia.org
gmail told me:
- This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
- A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
- recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
- avoinigescu@wikimedia.org
- (ultimately generated from trademarks@wikimedia.org)
- Address avoinigescu@wikimedia.org does not exist
-- Cherubino (talk) 06:04, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
- Hello Cherubino: you can still send mail to trademarks@, although Andrei is no longer on the list, someone else on the legal team will be happy to assist you. I will get this fixed, and thanks for letting us know! Best, Stephen LaPorte (WMF) (talk) 11:19, 10 October 2014 (UTC)