User:Jamesday

Please note that these days I'm not an active developer/tech team member. I am still a little active as an admin at enwiki and general contributor. Much of the description below is retained for historical reasons for anyone who's wondering why my name appears in assorted technical places here.

I was part of the Wikimedia technical team and developer committee, handling database, equipment purchasing and general technical admin tasks; and an administrator here. If you're unfamiliar with Wikipedia, a display about the site spent a few weeks on display in the foyer of the United Nations, won the Webby community award in 2004, had just under a million contributions in June 2004 and according to Alexa.com is in the top 75 English language and top 150 world web sites and still growing. There are also versions in over 100 other languages in various states of evolution. There's constant chat in the IRC chat and I can usually be found there.

While I write about law a lot, I'm not a lawyer. I've been tracking the evolution of US law relating to online communities and involved in managing them and applying copyright law in practice since about 1994. Please don't hesitate to ask me to explain why I write what I write about any legal matter.

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WikiProject Computing /Controversial articles Online service provider law

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Guardian Manual of Style Blackwell Publishing on clearances and fair dealing

Prohibition on removal or alteration of copyright management information

To do list:
 * Israel's declaration of statehood
 * Grand Warner
 * musical works for hire
 * musical fair use
 * CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada
 * cuisine

Legal sources (read these to learn more about copyright law):
 * Ivan Hoffman, see the articles sections. Note the publication date, though, for later cases have sometimes changed the state of the law, notably in the internet field.

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