2006/1/26, Robin Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jürg Wolf schrieb: > > What needs a german lawyer in a legal case in Switzerland? We even must be > > prepared of 26 different law details across CH so a germal lawyer is > > absolutely > > useless.... (badly) > > fack Yes, although ad 26 different laws: afaik the copyright law and the Strafrecht (penal law?) are federal. > > > The risk carries on the holder of the domain. But what courts say to foreign > > domain holders of .ch domains - I don't know. If it would fit and it is a > > optimization of risk - the domain should be held by wikimedia foundation in > > the > > US. > > Not only the risk, also the power is given to the possessor of the > domain. Therefore I'd rather support to be the owner of domains > concerning us. Right. > > Second thing is that our Federal Court is known to be rather Open Source > friendly. Remember the case of the picture of Christoph Meili where they > decided that a picture that was arranged for a quarter of an hour did > not fall under copyright. Remember we do not have software patents too. > > What do you think about an own WP server in Switzerland? You mean, a "real wp"-server like in Amsterdam or in Seoul or rather a tools-server like tools.wikimedia.de? If the former, we should probably first contact the devs to ask whether that is a good idea. > Looking at the > legal cases like the one in Germany it might be useful to distribute > knowledge as broadly as possible to minimize political, legal and > technical risks. Might be, yes. > > Best regards > Michael > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediach-l mailing list > Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l >
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