Translations:Legal/Legal Fees Assistance Program/FAQ/30/en

All of our contributors are valued for the work they do, regardless of their user rights. For that reason, historically the Foundation has assisted contributors who have found themselves the object of legal threats. That assistance has taken on different forms, including helping locate pro bono lawyers, offering assistance in a defense, fighting off lawyer threats against the content posted by contributors, or filing defensive (and expensive) litigation defending against attacks relating to that content. Indeed, the Legal department successfully pushes back on about 95% of the serious legal threats to content that we receive a year (the remaining mostly resulting in DMCA takedown notices). So we take the work of contributors and their defense seriously. For that reason, we wrote the Defense of Contributors policy last year covering all contributors, including editors.