Time to revive the Legal Working Group?
Nathan Schneider
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We used to have a Legal Working Group, but it has not been active since 2018. Now that we have a larger community, with some amazing lawyers in it, should we revive it?
Here are some pending things it might work on:
Clarify ownership status of Social.coop IP and content
Clarify fiscal sponsorship relationship with Platform6
Identify and mitigate potential legal risks
Publicize our legal knowledge and documents for use by other co-ops
What else?
The group used to be called "Legal/Governance Working Group," but I propose it should be more narrowly focused on legal interfaces, since governance is something that the Community Working Group and Finance Working Group also work on—and governance is a shared task!
Poll Created Mon 14 Nov 2022 4:54PM
Would you be interested in joining a Legal Working Group? Closed Thu 17 Nov 2022 4:01PM
Lots of people opted in!
Results
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Accept | 11 |
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| Undecided | 0 |
11 of 11 people have participated (100%)
Joseph Andriano
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:07PM
I am an attorney so this is in my wheelhouse.
Todd Youngblood
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:28PM
I'm generally interested in legal solutions to empower co-ops and would like to participate.
freescholar
Mon 14 Nov 2022 5:46PM
looking forward to it!
D. Maurice Kreis
Tue 15 Nov 2022 5:04PM
I live for this kind of stuff.
Matt Noyes
Tue 15 Nov 2022 8:23PM
Great to see this! Not willing to participate, just wanted to suggest the proposal should clearly state that policy decisions are made by the social.coop members, not by individual working groups.
Nic
Tue 15 Nov 2022 8:59PM
IANAL, but did start to think about some of the issues when experimenting with peertube at open.movie.
Darren
Tue 15 Nov 2022 9:46PM
Im interested in the legal side.
Some of us were recently discussing legal implications.
This recent blog post wqs illuminating on UK law
Sam Whited
Wed 16 Nov 2022 12:02AM
I am not a lawyer, but am generally interested in U.S. Law and would be happy to help.
Billy Smith
Wed 16 Nov 2022 7:34AM
I don't really have the spoon capacity to take on another role, but i do have some questions about coop's where i need to get some informal legal advice. :D
How will the working group operate?
Also, it seems that i cannot post without voting, but the only button that i see is the accept button, so the results section will not be that accurate...