[OSM-legal-talk] IPR lawyers and CC-BY-SA

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Tue Aug 14 19:56:32 BST 2007


OJW wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:40, Peter Miller wrote:
>> Does anyone have any other ideas?
> 
> I just assumed we'd use the Software Freedom Law Center when asking for legal 
> advice -- i.e. start off with someone who understands Free Software and works 
> with these licenses daily, rather than a generic lawyer who might be seeing 
> ShareAlike-style licenses for the first time.
> 
> http://www.softwarefreedom.org/services/
> 

iCommons, the CC-UK list, FSFE and openbusiness might be good. If they 
can't help directly they will probably know people who can.

http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icommons

http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-uk

http://www.fsfe.org/en/contact_us

http://www.openbusiness.cc/contact

It is probably best to try to get a lawyer for the jurisdiction that the 
OSM Foundation are based in.

- Rob.




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