Wikimedia legal overview: 2014-03-19

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

Thanks!

[email protected] / User:LuisV (WMF)

@tieguy

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